News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Democracies that failed the Covid test will struggle on climate change, (2) "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.", (3) Global Financial Stability Watchdog Warns That Markets Remain Vulnerable, (4) Racism Impoverishes the Whole Economy, (5) Miami Marlins hire Kim Ng as MLB's first female general manager, and Bonus article - Chris Nikic, You Are an Ironman. And Your Journey Is Remarkable.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) The C.E.O. Who Promised There Would Be No Layoffs, (2) Travel Companies That Are Thriving Amid the Pandemic, (3)Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate, (4) Ark ETFs Defying Gravity, (5) The new COVID trend? Apparently, it’s buying rare books, and Bonus article - Portland's iconic Powell's Books is selling a book-scented unisex fragrance.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1)This Is Your Brain on Uncertainty, (2) October Selloff Leaves Few Places to Hide, (3) What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof?, (4) The Secrets to Success as an Audiobook Narrator, (5) Japan using high-tech experiments to fill baseball stadium, and Bonus article - Some fascinating history behind the Apple founders

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Low interest rates leave savers with few good options, (2) Ant Challenged Beijing and Prospered. Now It Toes the Line., (3) The Idea That Raising Wages Destroys Value Is A Fallacy, (4) Is it time to forget what you learned about investing in bonds? (5) IRS Announces 2021 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits For 401(k)s And More, and Bonus article - Ghost Stories of Tripadvisor is a dreadful directory of hotel hauntings

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Pfizer Sets Up Its ‘Biggest Ever’ Vaccination Distribution Campaign, (2) Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away, (3) Older Americans are selling the stock market, slowly but ceaselessly, to junior generations, (4) Opinion: In 2020, things are upside down in agriculture, (5) Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing, and Bonus article - The Town That Went Feral

Financial advice is not one size fits all. To get a better idea of what advice is best for you, it’s helpful to figure out your individual money personality. Financial success is linked more to behavior than income. We have clients earning $40,000 per year and amassing significant savings accounts. In contrast, for people born wealthy, 7 in 10 families will lose their fortune by the second generation, and 90% lose it by the third. (Source: Marketwatch)

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) America Has Lost Its Taste for Iceberg Lettuce, (2) The Best Pastries Are Now Being Sold Via Instagram, (3) Mainstreaming MMT, (4) Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis, (5) The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banking’s Sole Black C.E.O., and Bonus article - The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Sizing Up the Rural-Urban Travel Divide: Who’s Up and Who’s Down, (2) The anti-Spotify: How online music company Bandcamp became the toast of the COVID age, (3) Are markets in a bubble because traders live in one?, (4) Biden’s Tax Plan Would Spur Economic Growth, (5) Small investors have pushed big companies toward social change. A new SEC rule will limit their influence, (6) I Had Lost All Hope’: Clorox Wipes Are Still the Hard-to-Find Pandemic Item, and Bonus article - HEARTBREAKER - To women in search of love, Shaun Rootenberg seemed like a catch. What they didn’t know: he’d spent decades stealing from just about anyone who crossed his path.

Did you know that writing your concerns down often helps to reduce the stress of worrying about them? Many of our clients worry about the future, but do not know how to get those worries on paper in a meaningful way. We strongly encourage clients to consider working with us to create a written FINANCIAL PLAN.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) ArcelorMittal to Sell Steel Business in U.S. to Cleveland-Cliffs, (2) BTS to become multi-millionaires after label goes public, (3) How Stories Drive Financial Behavior--and What to Do About It, (4) Destruction of value in US real estate revealed, (5) Bonds Are Beating Stocks in Topsy-Turvy 2020, and Bonus article - Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but the ecosystem may suffer.