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26 Apr 2019 How much should you tip? And other questions.

Posted at 10:38h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In 1992, during the Barcelona Olympics (where the greatest basketball team of all time was assembled), Seinfeld began its fourth season with a two-part opening called "The Trip." Like almost all Seinfeld episodes, there's no point in me trying to recap what happens in those...

12 Apr 2019 The Trouble With Biometric Investment Monitors

Posted at 08:30h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I mean this in the best possible way: You do not keep yourself alive. The breathing, the movement of blood, the functioning of the kidneys and liver and all the rest--you and I have no role whatsoever in making it all work. The most we can...

05 Apr 2019 Do You Have a Success-Type Personality?

Posted at 11:38h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

"Just as a doctor learns to diagnose disease from certain symptoms, failure and success can also be diagnosed. . . A person does not simply find success or come to failure. He or she carries their seeds around in his personality and character." Dr....

29 Mar 2019 The Ugly Truth of “Failure to Launch”

Posted at 08:00h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

There’s a scene in the 2006 movie, Failure to Launch, where a couple is lamenting the fact that their adult son still lives with them. “The boy’s thirty-five years old!” says one. “It’s just not fair,” says the other. “We were good parents and now...