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03 Nov 2017 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Posted at 12:04h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

The U.S. House of Representatives released their tax bill to the public yesterday with great fanfare to a mix of joy on the one side and wailing and gnashing of teeth on the other. If the devil's in the details - Halloween is not over...

18 Sep 2015 The Way Things Work

Posted at 13:35h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

When I was a kid, we had a book in our house (well, we had LOTS of books, but this was one of them) entitled The Way Things Work, which was written and illustrated by David Macaulay. It's a magical book full of all kinds of crazy, hand-drawn pictures illustrating, well, the way things work. From augers to grand pianos to zoom lenses and just about everything in between.

11 Sep 2015 Our Down and Dirty on the World Economy

Posted at 14:13h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

A couple of days ago a friend and client suggested we were just too darned upbeat in our economic briefs. He was right. We do indeed try to see the positive aspects of the economy, leaving the the doom & gloom and the sensational to the ad-selling media.

24 Jul 2015 Tempests in Teapots

Posted at 13:34h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Yesterday's report that the number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance was the lowest since the early 70's provides more evidence that the US economy is becoming stronger. Investors are becoming convinced that the Federal Reserve will soon begin raising interest rates back to levels reflective of a healthy economy.