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03 Dec 2020 Lessons from Pappy Van Winkle

Posted at 19:51h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

There is no finer bourbon in the world than Pappy Van Winkle. A quick Google search for their 23-year-old Kentucky bourbon will bring up bottles for sale in excess of $4,500, or roughly $225 a shot. (Not that anyone takes shots. This is a sipping...

19 Nov 2020 Food lines and all-time highs.

Posted at 21:03h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The world is a complicated place. It always has been and always will be. It's a place where beautiful and terrible things are happening in the same place and at the same time and sometimes even in the same people. Maybe in 2020 this is...

12 Nov 2020 Sweet Dreams

Posted at 20:14h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

Lately, it seems that almost everybody I talk to is having a harder time sleeping than they were 9 months ago. That doesn't surprise me given everything that's going on in the world today. Between COVID, the election and having kids home from school, the...

05 Nov 2020 Cheat Codes (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start)

Posted at 20:35h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

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...