Jeff Weeks, CFP®

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[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@swedishsteel @FiSurgi Depending on when he bought it, he may be able to rescind (“free look”) the contract. If he’s past the free look period, he still should push back as to how this product was “suitable”. I’d ask for that response in writing while also requesting a penalty free transfer out.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

It clearly concerns 89% of us. What have you done about it in your 24 years in the Senate? There is a lot of talk from both the right and left but most of you are much more concerned about getting reelected than you are about applying a “best for the country” standard to your governance.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@SharylAttkisson Sounds like he did an ACH, versus a Federal Bank Wire. In my experience with Fidelity, they still pay interest and allow investment with the unavailable to withdraw funds.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@AustinJustice The one statistic that can’t be manipulated. Very telling…and tragic.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@SenRickScott There used to be a time that I was gullible enough to believe fairy tales like this. You’ve been in office for 7 years while the national debt has increased ~$18T.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@JohnCornyn Senator, how many bills did you propose to fix the problem during your long career?

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

Not accurate. Bush’s actual proposals were voluntary accounts of 2–4% of wages (not 10%), plus progressive price indexing of traditional benefits.

If the 2005 plan had passed, a 2025 AEI analysis using real market returns shows:

- Low- and middle-earners retiring now would have gotten total benefits 3–8% *higher* than scheduled under current law.
- Higher earners: 2–4% lower.
- Solvency: Would have closed roughly one-third of the long-term shortfall and delayed trust-fund depletion by about a decade. Helpful partial fix, but not full solvency or anything close to doubled benefits.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@chiproytx I hope you’re right but even the road is a travesty. Put some more drones or BP personnel down there. If I were writing a script on how to turn Texas Blue….
1. Screw up Big Bend

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

It shouldn’t be a tough decision to back off ruining one of the nation’s unspoiled treasures. Put some extra drones and Border Patrol in the area if the excuse is illegal immigration. @realDonaldTrump @SenTedCruz @KenPaxtonTX @DanPatrick @GregAbbott_TX

[J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda]

People struggle to understand the remote nature of Big Bend.

In 2015 I flew a plane around the entire border of Texas and photographed it from the air. It took 6 days to complete the trip. Big Bend alone was one full day of flying and photographing.

Both sides of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, are hundreds of miles of the most inhospitable, yet beautiful desert landscape. The Chihuahuan Desert is unforgiving country. A place with massive rock cliffs and very little terrain you can traverse by foot safely.

The visitor rate in the park is on the lower end compared to more accessible parks like Yosemite and The Great Smoky Mountains, but its popularity among those who have actually visited is astounding.

In fact, this summer I was camped in the Smoky Mountains next to an older couple who travels the country in their RV.

Being from North Carolina they had spent a lot of time there as well as many of the parks in the West.

They saw my ¡Viva Terlingua! sticker and asked if I’d been. I told them that I’d spent about a week in Big Bend for the last 19 years and got out there any time I could.

They said they took the desolate drive along State Highway 90 through Sanderson on their way out. It was on the husband’s bucket list to visit and it was by far his favorite park now that he had.

The untouched, rugged, austere nature of that area is the feature that draws people in and leaves a lasting impression.

If you’re at a loss to understand why there’s such an uproar over construction of a road barrier through Big Bend Ranch State Park and BBNP, then it’s my belief that you’ve likely never been. Because if you had, you’d understand.

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

Boring Company is about to explode.

They just closed about $3B in new funding and they are now aggressively hiring tons of people including business development (sales). This tells me they’ve reached the level of technical maturity they want so they can blitz municipalities worldwide to build Loop projects.

We currently know about Las Vegas (12 stations, 8 more by end of year, 104 within a few years), Nashville (40+ stations), and Dubai (20), but other cities are coming.

They currently have 7 tunnel boring machines in operation, with an additional 4 more anticipated to be put into service by the end of 2026. They currently build a new machine every two months.

Loop is Boring’s big urban transit innovation. It is a hybrid system, allowing EVs to pop out of tunnels and drive on surface streets for a bit. Stations can be small surface parking lots (one of Vegas’ new stations will be at a Mexican restaurant), or be placed beside a hotel’s entrance portico.

Small cheap stations mean you can build lots of stations resulting in a design rule of less than 100 feet for customers to walk as opposed to a subway’s 1/4 mile design target.

And unlike a subway, Loop is a point-to-point express system. No stopping at intermediate stations along the way or changing train lines in the Loop system.

AI? Absolutely. The boring machines are mostly autonomous now and the EVs driving passengers will be autonomous soon. Obviously these systems will eventually tightly integrate into Tesla’s Robotaxi network.

Being a Musk company, Boring has wrung tons of cost out of the system, making Boring more than 10x cheaper than legacy tunnel boring. Among other things, this has resulted in both Las Vegas and Nashville systems being completely privately funded through a combination of hotels paying for their own Loop station and rider fees that still cost less than an equivalent (but slower) taxi ride.

Any city investigating ways to lighten urban traffic load should be calling up Boring.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@TexasMonthly Ok, i apologize if i missed the connection when I scanned the article but why is Texas Monthly doing a story about a a BBQ joint in Denver?

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@thestinkeye I love using LLMs to gain efficiency but the real danger is not knowing what you don’t know and following the advice of the intern.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@AskTSA @TSA @SecDuffy @USDOT I have TSA PreCheck and have used Touchless ID at AUS on multiple Southwest flights. Today, with nothing changed—same ID, same airline, same airport—I wasn’t eligible. The Touchless lane was operating normally. If eligibility is discretionary, travelers deserve a clear explanation of why it’s available one trip and not the next. A program that appears arbitrary undermines confidence in the experience.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

Housing prices are a factor of supply and demand and Austin is doing its part to keep the supply coming. @KirkPWatson

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

There is no such thing as a high-permitting, high-cost city.

If you have demand and you aren’t permit-maxxing, you’re rent-maxxing.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

This is why owning the market works. Own them all and you’re guaranteed to own the winners.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

100 yrs of stock market: From 1926 through 2025 (30k stocks analyzed) - just 27.6% of stocks outperform the market / 60% of stocks incurred wealth reductions / the median stock returned -6.9%.
46 firms accounted for half of the wealth created by the stock market ($91 trillion net wealth creation).
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[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@alphaarchitect Fama has been saying this for years.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@agnostoxxx Now do the Nikkei 225

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Fidelity lowers the minimum account requirement for the SpaceX IPO from as high as $500,000 to just $2,000.

[Jeff Weeks, CFP® @ATXAdvisor]

@AdvisorJobs I’d love to see stats on what percentage of advisors that take PE buyouts actually hit all or most of hurdles required to collect that perceived premium over private deals. I’d also be interested in how end clients feel about those deals.