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28 May Tax Deferral, Liquidity, and Fundamental Laws

Posted at 13:58h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The United States income tax system is known as a "progressive" system, meaning that as your income goes up, your marginal tax rate goes up, to a point. This has been the case for a long time. The brackets and the top rates have moved...

21 May On Real Wealth

Posted at 20:07h in The Friday Brief by Ellen Martin

In the show Your Friends and Neighbors, Jon Hamm plays Andrew Cooper, a hotshot hedge fund manager making “master of the universe” money. Coop seems to have it all: the good looks, the house, the friends, the career, the ritzy lavish lifestyle – but then...

13 May Simplify, simplify, simplify!

Posted at 15:34h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

On March 17, 2001, I left Springer Mountain, Georgia, with all my belongings stuffed into a backpack and one goal in mind: to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. The A.T. is a footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine, covering nearly 2,200 miles with more than 464,000...

07 May Bitcoin is…

Posted at 12:13h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

One of the great financial crisis movies is Margin Call. Set over one night at a Wall Street investment bank during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis, the film unpacks the moral pressure, fear, and self-interest that drive the characters as the collapse...