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10 Jan 2020 Is Tesla The Next Big Thing?

Posted at 08:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Look, first off, I don't know. And secondly, if you've been around us very long at Beacon you know that we are not stock pickers and will never be stock pickers, for reasons that we have laid out many, many times. The title of this...

03 Jan 2020 Top 11 Financial To Do’s

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

Each year I’m given the privilege of speaking with several groups of recent college grads about personal finance. It’s no secret that even after 4 years of high school and several years of college (and perhaps beyond) most people enter the complex world of personal...

27 Dec 2019 The Best and the Worst of Times

Posted at 12:29h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

The decade of the teens has been one of the most remarkable in US history in terms of contrasts. Charles Dickens, in his Tale of Two Cities describes it remarkably well: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the...

20 Dec 2019 The President Has Been Impeached

Posted at 09:14h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

On Wednesday night, President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives. The next step is for a vote to take place in the Senate, where a two-thirds majority is required to remove a sitting President. Given the Senate is controlled by Republicans 53-47, the...