Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Building multiple passive income streams has an additional benefit in the short term: it can make you more resilient and better able to weather economic shocks, such as what was experienced with the past housing crisis and global pandemic. Most brokerages no longer charge trading commissions which is a huge saving for us!

Accounting

The Better Letter

APRIL 27, 2023

On the other hand,… …I see the evidence as demonstrating that there are many, many exceedingly difficult questions, personal, moral, ethical, religious, economic, political, and otherwise. And today’s world seems chock-full of fundamentalists. Many are indeed fundamental. Who should I vote for? Who should I marry?

Banking

Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Are commissions bad? Are commissions bad? Salaske said he wonders if the people who really need them are getting sold annuities that don’t produce a huge commission. Macchia says that agents would be happy to take even a small commission. Macchia says they are not bad, they’re just a different way to get paid.

Insurance

Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Wright: Yes, So yes, is the quick answer, the more convoluted answer would be that we should control internally… We’re a fraternity of ethics and competency testing that should be different from the SEC. Salaske: Right, now.

CFP

Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.

CFP

The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. And so he set me off in a direction that was practical and at that point, commission business that he generated was ginormous, I’m sure. When you come outta school, 1969 to 71, you’re an economic consultant at data resources.

Economy

Brown Advisory

MAY 16, 2016

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. In the 51 years since Buffett took control, Berkshire Hathaway has grown from a small, economically challenged textile company to one of the largest U.S. Berkshire Hathaway.

Insurance

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

And what happened was I became the head of the Economic Club of Washington where I was supposed to get people to come in and give speeches and the speeches that were being given by business people were boring. Don’t get, make ethical mistakes because in the end, you could ruin your entire life. You sit on a number of boards.

Government

The Better Letter

MARCH 2, 2023

Nearing 400 years ago now, Thomas Hobbes noted and accounted for a crucial difference between geometry and ethics: We disagree about and dispute matters of ethics routinely but geometry almost never. Then again, our values and desires make our search for truth harder still.

Ethics

Aleph

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Tax laws now encourage firms to de-lever Feb 07, 2023 Expect more defaults in the $4 trillion municipal-bond market this year, Bank of America strategists said [link] With muni debt of “unrated securities in the not-for-profit, nursing home and hospital industries” you have to focus on economic necessity. link] Deficient article.

Banking

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : And then economics, which I really only took a little bit of, a lot fewer than my peers I later competed with in grad school, was kind of in between like the three little bears, you know, it was, there was, I love that. How does that relate to economics and decision making and investing?

Economics