Immediate gratification is not a Millennial thing, it’s an everyone thing. No one likes to wait, which is why you can pay extra not to. Retailers offer next day shipping, amusement parks offer fast passes to cut the lines and don’t even get me started on instant coffee (if you can call it coffee). We’re[…]
A few years back, shortly after Hazel was born, my parents got divorced after 35 years of marriage. Over the weekend, I FaceTimed with my mother in Florida to walk through my childhood room and decide which sacred possessions from my past I’d like to have shipped to me as she has decided to say[…]
For most of 2018, I felt like we were finally getting out of The Great Recession’s lingering haze. For older members of my generation, it has been a solid seven year run of favorable enough conditions to grab onto something we can call our own. Whether that’s a steady job with benefits or a now[…]
It must have been my eighth trip to the New York Stock Exchange. Each time I step on to the floor, I close my eyes and try to imagine what it must have been like to get wrapped up in a typhoon of traders dashing across the exchange to fill their orders before the closing[…]
Yesterday, after a few trades and a handful of afternoon appointments, I closed out my second year at the helm of Bone Fide Wealth. We’ve accomplished a lot in such a short period of time and have established ourselves as a nationally recognized leader in the financial planning profession, as well as a go-to for[…]
I wake up ten to twenty minutes before my daughter’s alarm clock glows green. At 6:30am, Hazel pops up in her bed and begins curating a selection of stuffed animals to place at the foot of her bedroom door. I don’t know why she feels the need to transport her friends from her bed, but[…]
While reading about Bitcoin’s most recent plunge, I stumbled across a blog post from Charlie Bilello titled “Big Winners and Big Drawdowns”. In it, Charlie examined the massive, stomach emptying drawdowns experienced by shareholders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet at various times throughout the last two decades. I heard that Amazon’s -94% dot-com bubble drawdown[…]
Like most warm-blooded Americans on the day after Thanksgiving, my wife loves Black Friday. As I write this, I am currently staring at her from across my in-law’s living room while she lives her best online shopping life. She’ll scour the internet looking for the best sales for the things we need. While she might[…]
From a young age my brother and I had the good fortune of being introduced to personal computing. We were hooked the moment our eyes feasted upon the monochromatic display of our Tandy 8088, which was an extremely progressive and generous holiday gift to get from one’s grandfather. To me, our home computer was a[…]
They say socially responsible investing (SRI) and Millennials go together like participation and trophies. According to a 2018 Harvard Kennedy School study titled “Money, Millennials and Human Rights”, SRI is getting a boost from Gen Y’s demand to establish a greater link between their money and their values. This increased demand, coupled with an alleged[…]