“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” – Al Franken And there you have it, folks! Trying to change your…
In a recent post on Financial Advisor IQ, Sullivan Financial Planning’s Kristi Sullivan was quoted in the article, Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Fad or the Future? By Chris Latham. A copy of the article is below. Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Fad or the Future?…
If you look back on my past blogs, I explain the different types of bonds with a fun example. To summarize, bonds come in different maturity dates and different credit qualities. The longer the maturity date, the better the interest…
I’m going to spend the next couple of blogs talking about the horrifying (sarcasm) specter of rising interest rates. This is in hopes that I won’t have to talk about it for the rest of the year. Yeah, right. If…
There must be some physical component in the human brain that relentlessly drives us to compare our lives to that of our friends, enemies, co-workers, or ex-boyfriends. We do it with the cars we drive, the age we marry, our…
One of the perils of working in financial planning is that you speak in this weird language that you think others understand, but they don’t. This is where I rely on my friends to let me know when I am…
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