How Much is Enough for You? A question to discuss with your financial planner

Posted in: Decisions, Events, Financial Factory

In the last 60 days, two Atlanta companies sold for more than $700 million.  Founders, employees and investors who...

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Financial Physics – Part I

Posted in: Cash Flow, Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Investment

If you’ve never heard of financial physics, no worries, it’s just like regular physics. There are...

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Bricolage

Posted in: Cash Flow, Decisions, Financial Factory, Financial Planning

Bricolage is a French word every financial planner should be familiar with. The core meaning of the word is to be...

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Circles in the Dark

Posted in: Decisions, Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Frustration

A blindfolded human being will walk in circles, not a straight line. We hear stories about lost hikers walking in...

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Slave, Save and Die – In that Order

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning

Sounds exciting. Living your entire life forever postponing life. This is the path the financial factory needs you to...

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The Deferred Happiness Model

Posted in: Cash Flow, Financial Factory, Risk, Yield

You can’t escape them.  The “experts” are everywhere, on TV and radio – gurus like Clark Howard, Suze...

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Beware of Being Called a Sophisticated Investor

Posted in: Financial Factory, Investment

I recently had lunch with a lawyer who tried more than 150 arbitration cases against every brokerage firm in the...

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Financial Advisor, M.D.

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning

When was the last time you went to the doctor because you felt great? The impetus for making that appointment is...

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The Unintended Consequence

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Investment

If you’re not from the South, that strange vine that seems to permeate every vacant space is called Kudzu...

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Welcome to the Only Get Rich Once Blog!

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Frustration, Risk

A lot has happened in the three months here at Holcombe Financial. We had a wonderful turnout for our open house. We...

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Painting Your Picture

Posted in: Decisions, Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Risk

I read a loosely translated Japanese Proverb from the Zappos Twitter feed. It made me think about issues faced by many...

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Focus on the Right Emotion

Posted in: Decisions, Financial Factory, Financial Planning

Emotion is a powerful driver of behavior. In The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt discusses the relationship...

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Cloudy with a Chance of Profit

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Risk

The weather is actually a perfect metaphor. The financial markets operate with absolute autonomy. Predictions have no...

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Moniphany

Posted in: Financial Factory, Financial Planning, Risk

An epiphany is generally associated with a type of awakening. An exact moment in time where everything we’ve held as...

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The Solution Problem

Posted in: Decisions, Financial Factory, Investment

Nobody would buy a solution to a problem they don’t have. Unfortunately, business is marketing. The pharmaceutical...

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