My parents didn't allow video games in the house until I was a teenager. Prior to that, the only way for me to get my fill was to head over to Jon Jackson's house to play the original Nintendo. We played Duck Hunt, all the...
What if your job isn't secure? What if your trading strategy fails? What if housing prices don't go up forever? What if this isn't the end of the world? What if you get through this? What if things turn out better than you imagined? Maybe the most...
At Beacon, we believe that when it comes to planning and investing, you should spend all your effort focusing on things you can control. That seems like such an obvious strategy but it's amazing how easy it is to let the things we can't control...
Benefits season is nearly upon us! The time when employees across the country pick their health insurance and other benefits for the coming year. With this in mind, here are four considerations as you choose your benefits. Change How You Pay for Group Long-Term Disability Insurance? Disability...
"Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people." That's the premise of Morgan Housel's new book, The Psychology of Money,...
'Tis the season for political ads, campaign yard signs and presidential debates. I knew the 2020 presidential election was nearing but for some reason, probably Tuesday’s debate, I just realized how close it actually is. As of the posting of this brief, Election Day is...
A few weeks back I wrote an explainer of Joe Biden's tax proposal and received some questions about the following passage: "(Y)es, there are times where it’s beneficial to accelerate income." It's a counter-intuitive statement because most of the conversation around taxes is that you...
"The short seller said a 2018 promotional video showing a prototype of a Nikola semi-truck traveling down the road was staged and that the truck was rolling down a hill rather than propelling itself...
[caption id="attachment_12133" align="alignleft" width="300"] COVID chart or Stock Market chart?[/caption] It's been a nervy week of trading in the stock market! Particularly for tech stocks. The Nasdaq Composite Index (which is heavily weighted toward tech stocks) fell more than 10% in just three trading sessions after...
There's almost always something interesting going on with the stock market. Lately, it’s been hard to ignore the dominance of large U.S. technology stocks. The fact that the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, is up 9.16% year-to-date as of September 1st is...
