Author: Sarah Yakel

Every time we send out the weekly blog email, we invite our readers to send ideas for future posts our way. Every now and then, a reader takes us up on that! 😊 Here’s one question that we’ve been meaning to answer for a while (but were waylaid by one of the craziest market cycles […]

With Apple and Tesla completing their stock splits last Friday, we’ve been talking to lots of investors that have become interested in their stock…which sort of baffles us, as the basic principle of a split doesn’t alter the fundamental value of a company in any way. When a company decides to split their stock

When the world stopped in March with the arrival of COVID-19, we got a small reprieve from the endless string of ‘grown-up’ appointments…no routine doctor visits, hair cuts, teeth cleanings, vet visits, etc.  It sort of felt like playing hooky from doing adult things…but now, sadly, all of those adulting

My dad engrained many things in me from a young age…value of hard work, honesty, family values, etc.  But also his love of the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers movies, Johnny Cash, the Beatles, Neil Diamond, Looney Tunes, Ray Stevens, lots of old movies, and Paul Harvey… I don’t remember how we started

We just returned home from an epic road trip across Montana—we started in Glacier National Park in the north and worked our way to Yellowstone in the south.  The trip was a feast for the eyes—and many times, it was hard to take it all in.  The perspectives were so grand that it was hard […]

Today, the Meridian team is attending a virtual JP Morgan Investment Forum. We usually head to Tysons to a nice hotel conference center and hear from the top economists at JP Morgan in person…but this year, we are all sitting at our desks, listening in.  While virtual events are always a challenge, we also miss

With the beautiful weather this past weekend, Jonathan and I tackled our first major project in a very long time.  We built a raised bed garden with deer netting and a hinged door—here is the finished product: We usually don’t do projects together—it’s not great for our marriage.  We just have different ways

It has been a challenging couple of months, and I was thinking through how wild it has been (January seems like forever ago!). Here is just a collection of things we’ve seen personally and professionally (they sort of all blend together when you work from home) during the past several weeks… In no particular

We wrote a couple of weeks ago about the CARES act in another pun-titled post called “Care for a summary?” It contained a great summary of the bill and what is contained within. For obvious reasons, much of the focus on the CARES Act has been on the cash payments and the interest free (and […]