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20 Apr 2023 When $300k Feels Like $100k

Posted at 14:37h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

There was an article at Bloomberg this week with the title, "A $300,000 Salary Feels Like $100,000 in The Priciest US Cities," and I would like to say two things about that: 1) I bet these sorts of articles are reliably the most clicked articles,...

13 Apr 2023 24 Hours of Adrenalin

Posted at 16:21h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

When I was younger, my friends and I used to enjoy competing in endurance races like the 24 Hours of Adrenalin race in Conyers, Georgia. It was basically a mountain bike event that involved completing as many laps as possible of the mountain bike course...

30 Mar 2023 Three Takeaways from the Silicon Valley Bank Failure

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

Three weeks ago today, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was put into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) after experiencing outflows of more than $40B the day before. Since then, most of the conversation has focused on how the FDIC balances their own insurance...

23 Mar 2023 People Aren’t Bored Anymore

Posted at 16:08h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Almost exactly two years ago I wrote a blog entitled NFTs, SPACs, WSB, and the Problem of Boredom. The purpose of the blog was to point to the absurd excesses represented by non-fungible tokens (NFTs), special purposes acquisition companies (SPACs), and crypto projects of various sorts....