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06 Nov 2015 New Budget Deal Affects Social Security Strategies

Posted at 09:26h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

First the good news: the House and Senate passed a new budget deal last week that suspends the debt limit until 2017 and increases funding levels for a number of federal programs. President Obama signed the deal into law on Monday, avoiding a government debt default and reducing the risk of a government shutdown in December.

30 Oct 2015 Please Federal Reserve: Raise Our Interest Rates

Posted at 12:00h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

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Fed Chair, Janet Yellen[/caption] The financial news is dominated by speculation of when the Fed will increase interest rates. It matters because the Fed is the only economic policy maker with any potential or apparent willingness to stimulate our economy. The Administration continues to pile on regulations and complicate the tax structure, while the Congress, through its brokenness, allows sequestration to continue cutting more deeply into the areas of government spending (defense and social) that are actually stimulative to economic growth.

23 Oct 2015 When Is A Limited Ecosystem A Good Thing?

Posted at 12:15h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

An article in Business Insider released earlier this week got me thinking about some glaring similarities to our own process. The piece was entitled “Apple haters are flooding Google's app store with 1-star reviews for Apple's 1st Android app.”

15 Oct 2015 The State Fair, the Best of Times, and the Worst of Times

Posted at 23:44h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

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^{Curtesy of: https://www.flickr.com/photos/outofideas/}[/caption] My wife Amy and I are taking our son Miles to the fair this afternoon, and as I thought back to my own State Fair memories of riding bumper cars and watching all kinds of people, I was reminded yet again of the important role experiences play in our lives. At Beacon we have the privilege of helping folks dream about and actually make a reality some really neat experiences, which is a tremendous joy to us.