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Different Types of Planned Gifts

Planned gifts (also known as Legacy gifts) are charitable gifts made today for a future benefit to the charity. Examples of planned gifts are charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and bequests in a will. Some of the planned gifts…

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Cornerstone 3rd Quarter 2025 Commentary

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. – Niccolo Machiaveli The fragility of a…

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Cornerstone 2nd Quarter 2025 Commentary

The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are ‘protected’. The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It’s spread widely. There are people that don’t have jobs because of tariffs but they don’t know it…

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Cornerstone 1st Quarter 2025 Commentary

The Not so Glorious Revolution The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient, indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty. Edmund Burke (Between Revolutions: Re-apprraising the Restoration in…

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Tariff Tantrum

The fallout from “Liberation Day” has been anything but liberating!  The Trump Administration managed to thoroughly upset global markets with the rollout of “reciprocal” tariffs.  Following the initial release on April 2, markets began a sell-off which increased in intensity…

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Cornerstone 4th Quarter 2024 Commentary

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the…

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What is Biblical Generosity?

Biblical generosity is grounded in God’s extravagant love: eternally, in the love that exists between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the beginning, God created humankind in his image out of his own generosity. Therefore, as image-bearers, we are…

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Cornerstone 3rd Quarter 2024 Commentary

The triumph of “les autres”… When investment decisions need to be considered at the speed of light, something is seriously wrong Frank M Bifulco (Barron’s Letters to the Editor 5-24-2010, Stock Trader’s Almanac) The game is lost only when we…

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Cornerstone 2nd Quarter 2024 Commentary

A Hollowing Out… As for it being different this time it is different every time.  The question is in what way, and to what extent Bob Farrell’s Rules for Investing: #3 There are no new eras – excesses are never…

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