Brian Cochran, Financial Planner | CFP® | CKA®
Get Financially Fit – Financial Health with Brian Cochran
Flexing Your Finance Muscles Brian Cochran, Financial Planner at John Moore Associates, talks about how personal finance is a lot like personal health, when it’s a good time to hire a financial “personal trainer,” and the two crucial things you should be doing when you receive money. The podcast can currently be heard at: https://abqconnect.online/brian-cochran/…
Giving and Receiving
In preparing for this blog, I asked my sons for their thoughts on what I should write about this month. My oldest, Carson, surprised me with his thoughtful response. “You should write about how people shouldn’t give just to be recognized.” I asked him to tell me more. “Well, I think sometimes people give money…
Recession Reality Check
If we have a recession in the next year, it will be the first one that everyone saw coming. Everywhere I go, people are talking about “this recession,” “the coming recession” or “Trump’s recession.” It is almost as if a press release was sent out by the economy announcing a recession is scheduled to occur…
Slinging Junk Food
They say no news is good news. I believe that no news outlets are good news outlets, either. Most of the major national media companies are not your friend. In fact, I’ll go so far to say that I believe many of them should be viewed on the same level as drug dealers pushing their…
4 Thoughts on the Yield Curve
You may have seen the big news that the 2 year/10 year yield curve inverted on August 13th. This interest rate activity, and the 3% stock market drop that accompanied it, were meaningful enough to make it out of the financial news cycle and into the main stream. The Albuquerque Journal felt it warranted an all-caps…