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25 Sep 2015 Dow Plunges Triple Digits

Posted at 14:05h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

How often have you seen a news headline that looks something like this: “Dow Plunges Triple Digits?” Makes for a great headline, but a better way of saying the same thing is, “Dow Ends Down 0.6%.” Not quite the same attention grabber, is it?

18 Sep 2015 The Way Things Work

Posted at 13:35h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

When I was a kid, we had a book in our house (well, we had LOTS of books, but this was one of them) entitled The Way Things Work, which was written and illustrated by David Macaulay. It's a magical book full of all kinds of crazy, hand-drawn pictures illustrating, well, the way things work. From augers to grand pianos to zoom lenses and just about everything in between.

11 Sep 2015 Our Down and Dirty on the World Economy

Posted at 14:13h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

A couple of days ago a friend and client suggested we were just too darned upbeat in our economic briefs. He was right. We do indeed try to see the positive aspects of the economy, leaving the the doom & gloom and the sensational to the ad-selling media.

04 Sep 2015 Ignore Opinions, It’s Earnings That Matter

Posted at 09:08h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Investing in stocks is the very best way to passively build wealth over a lifetime. But too many think it is more like gambling than sensible wealth-creation. The stock market's gyrations of late can certainly reinforce the argument that it's too risky a bet for the family nest egg.