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02 Aug 2019 Equifax and Capital One: How to Protect Yourself

Posted at 10:45h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

Last week, the consumer credit reporting agency, Equifax, settled with the US Federal Trade Commission over its 2017 data breach that affected over 147 million Americans. The settlement of up to $700 million includes as much as $425 million for individual settlements. On Monday, Capital...

26 Jul 2019 Debt Presumes on the Future

Posted at 11:27h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

One thing that gaggle in Congress can agree on is spending billions of our hard-earned dollars, while turning a blind eye toward the futures of our children and grandchildren. Yesterday, the House voted to raise the federal debt and spending limits to allow them to...

19 Jul 2019 Do It Now

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

My family and I just returned from a trip to Johns Hopkins Medical Center, a journey we’ve made three times over the last two years as we’ve tried to get a handle on why Emily hasn’t been feeling well. During our last visit the...

12 Jul 2019 A Crummy Commercial!

Posted at 07:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The New York Times ran an article a couple of weeks ago entitled "How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want," which was full of the sort of depressing and sometimes disturbing data privacy-related information that you may have grown accustomed...