Well Balanced. Volume 25. A round-up helping you get today right.

📈 Stock Quote

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.”

Willy Wonka, Candy maker from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

🎁 Increase your Impact 

Gifting to charities is not only a noble act of kindness but may also be an effective way to manage your tax liabilities. Read Vector’s blog post to learn more:

5 Strategies for Giving (Article)

✈️ Take Flight

Plan ahead when traveling this holiday season.

“In 2023, we have already seen seven of the top 10 busiest travel days in TSA’s history,” an Agency Administrator said. The Sunday after Thanksgiving 2023 was the busiest day EVER for air travel in the U.S.

In other news, U.S. credit card debt has also taken flight with a 24% increase over the last five years to an all-time high of $1.079 trillion.

♻️ Jevons Paradox

Speaking of Jet Fuel

In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons noted that technological advancements that increase energy efficiency led to an increase in energy consumption–just as an increase in supply could.

Interestingly, a decrease in cost prompts consumers to use more energy as it becomes more affordable. Lower costs can then increase demand and cause a rebound effect in price, where prices rise again. This cyclical thought-provoker is known as the Jevon Paradox.

🕰️ Just a Matter of Time

The annualized real (after inflation) returns of stocks, bonds, and the U.S. Dollar over a period of 220 years provides a noteworthy historical outcome.

• Stocks +6.7%

• Bonds +3.5%

• U.S. Dollar -1.4%

Often, bonds or cash are the stable segment of a portfolio, at least in the short-run that’s usually the case. Stock prices tend to fluctuate more than bonds. Despite this, stocks broadly have been the more rewarding asset type when held over many years.

*Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

✅ Say Yes to Adventure

"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." 
- French novelist Marcel Proust

A collection of ten articles about adventure and adventurers by our friends at Artful Living. Get inspired by 150 wild horses, Minnesota to the North Pole by snowmobile, and train life as a hobo.

Get Inspired (Article)

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