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18 Aug 2022 What Is A House For?

Posted at 16:32h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In September of 2014, Amy and I bought our first house. I had just quit a (higher-paying) job at a Big 4 accounting firm to come work at Beacon that spring, and without knowing much of anything about buying a house, we bought one: 955...

21 Jul 2022 LIV Golf and the Ethics of Money

Posted at 18:17h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I don't want to lose too many of you at the word "golf," so to sum up real quick: "LIV Golf" is a relatively new, Saudi-funded, rival golf league of the PGA Tour. The Saudi government has been implicated in many evil things over the...

16 Jun 2022 Puke Days

Posted at 17:56h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune, there is a phrase—really a mantra or incantation—used by the main character and his mother at various times when they are facing particularly challenging circumstances: "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will...

12 May 2022 The One with the Down Market

Posted at 13:30h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I want to state, here at the outset and for the record, that the TV show Friends is the most overrated show of all time. But I am borrowing from that sorry show to craft the title of this blog, as each episode is titled with the...