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Regardless of how Covid-19 has affected your personal health, chances are that it has made a difference in the health care you receive and are able to access.

As we enter the “home stretch” in our look at the “ABC’s” of behavioral investing, it might be important to reflect, for a moment, on how we started.

Have you gotten an email or even a text message recently, notifying you that you have won a prize or a contest and asking you to click on a link to claim your winnings? The message may have even come from what appeared to be an authentic source: your mobile phone service provider, Amazon.com, or some other name you readily recognized.

Is there a brain chip in your future?  It may sound like science fiction, but based on current research, it could become science fact much sooner than you might expect. 

As we enter the fourth quarter of 2021, attention is being focused on the rate of growth in the US economy and analysts are submitting and revising their estimates about where we will end up in terms of the annual rate of growth in the US gross domestic product (GDP).

It seems like everyone wants to know what it takes to live fulfilling lives, foster happier families, create and manage stronger teams, and have happier clients. And why not?

In our last visit to the “ABCs” of behavioral investing, we looked at fear, greed, and the herd mentality and how they can work together to both instigate and amplify bad investing decisions.

These days, it’s easy to wonder if anybody is still reading actual books.

A friend or relative asks you to be the executor of her estate. What, exactly, is she asking you to do? You may feel honored by the trust being placed in you, or you may be motivated by feelings of loyalty to family or friends. For many small and medium-sized estates, the executor is often a friend or family member, so this decision is a common one.

We don’t yet have a clear report card on how well-educated America’s students were during the 2020-21 school year, with so much remote learning during the pandemic.  And with the worrying rise of the delta variant and its ongoing effects on American schools, it will also be a while before we know what the educational landscape will be like for 2021-22.