Wow, we are through the first month of 2025!
One of my biggest initiatives is learning out AI can make everything I do better. I challenge you do to the same!
- Here at AE we already made our own for you! – Click here to mess around with AE Chat!
Also, if you want to know how to learn how to make yourself better with AI I highly recommend this book and the resources on Geoff Woods’ site:
Excited to see how we all grow in 2025!
Here are your Quick Hits:
2024 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year
- Here is a look back at some of the major news moments of 2024.
- Events covered include Hurricanes Helene and Milton striking southeastern United States, a famous pygmy hippo named Moo Deng, the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and much more.
2025 Investment Outlook – Madison Avenue Securities
- I love this piece every year from Bob Seawright of Madison Avenue. He gives a super in depth insight into the past year and what he sees moving into the new year.
- “The performance of a portfolio, especially relative to some arbitrary index, is not of primary importance. The only benchmark you should care about is whether you are on track to achieve your financial goals.
- Volatility is not the same thing as financial risk. Real risk is the likelihood that you won’t achieve your financial goals. Your assets should be invested to try to minimize that risk.
- Goal-focused investing is the recipe for long-term financial success. This recipe doesn’t change when the market changes. In a world of seemingly limitless information, patience and discipline provide an enormous advantage.”
One House, Three Owners: The Ballooning Cost of the American Dream
- “The three-bedroom Victorian-style home at 1139 Great Ridge Parkway looks nearly identical to when it was built in 2010. On paper it is unrecognizable.”
