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10 May Consider Your Savings Account

Posted at 11:21h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

I started banking with my current bank almost 30 years ago. I chose NCNB because they had a branch a short walk from my dorm room. As a college freshman, proximity and the fact that they were willing to give me a credit card was...

26 Apr 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 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 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....