Somewhere on my desert island, all-time top five list of bands (s/o High Fidelity) sits Counting Crows. They released their first album, August and Everything After, in 1993 and you couldn't turn on the radio or switch on MTV without coming across Mr. Jones, the...
In the TV series The Bear—which, incidentally, is the best show I've ever seen—one of the main characters goes through a crisis of identity. Richie, or "Cousin" as he's affectionately known, needs a job and knows he needs it, but he is struggling with a deep...
Someone recently asked me when I learned how to use Excel/Word/PowerPoint. I honestly couldn’t remember so I asked my older sister, who could pinpoint learning to use Excel formulas and create graphs during 8th grade computer lab. Before then, we just learned on our own...
The summer season is finally here, and for many that presents an opportunity to slow down. If you’re like us at Beacon, you might plan to use some of your extra downtime reading a good book. We all have a long list of books that...
On Friday, June 2nd, the S&P 500 closed at 4,282.37, which on its own is meaningless. Combined with where it closed on October 12th, 2022 (3,577.03), and we see that it got as close as possible to a bull market rally without actually realizing it,...
Earlier this week Amy and I watched an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine's boss, Mr. Pitt, becomes so obsessed with a 3-D art print that he can't stop staring at it and nearly loses his mind. I can relate in two ways: First, I always...
A quick visit to the CNBC website will surely remind you of the laundry list of things we “should” be concerned about in the financial world these days. Everything from the debt ceiling talks and China to inflation and bank failures. That can make it...
The current Debt Ceiling debate first became a thing as far back as last November when Republicans took control of the House. With a divided congress and the U.S. running its usual budget deficit, agreement would be needed within the legislative branch to raise the...
Jason Gay has a great column this week about a baseball game he and his son attended between the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays, wherein he discusses the incredible impact of what in hindsight seems like a relatively minor tweak to the game: a pitch...
This week I had the privilege of writing the 1,000th edition of the Beacon Wealthcare Friday Brief. 1,000 is a pretty big number. That's a lot of time spent writing and reading about investing, financial planning, taxes, personal finances, and life, for that matter. Jared,...
