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31 Mar 2017 Are We Talking the Same Language?

Posted at 15:01h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

The financial services industry, like the medical industry, the marketing industry, and the automotive industry, all have their their unique shorthand terms and abbreviations that are clear to insiders, but confuse and obscure understanding for outsiders. It's called 'the curse of knowledge.' Jane Kennedy defines the curse of knowledge as "a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand."

14 Aug 2015 What a 10-day Traffic Jam Can Teach Us About Money

Posted at 12:25h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

You probably saw something in the past few weeks about the alarming volatility of the Chinese stock market, and more recently its currency devaluation. If you didn't, the short version is that things are a bit messy there these days. That being said, I'm not going...