Welcome to your Weekly Digest! To start this week, a quote: “The first guy through the wall—he always gets …
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Jeff D. Opdyke is an American financial writer and investment expert based in Portugal. He spent 17 years covering personal finance and investing for the Wall Street Journal, worked as a trader and a hedge fund analyst, and has written 10 books on such topics as investing globally and personal finance.
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Welcome to your Weekly Digest! To start this week, a quote: “The first guy through the wall—he always gets …
[Read more...] about Why Bitcoin “Officially” Went Mainstream This Week
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I can have anything. I don’t know what I want! I call it the “paralysis of choice”—the idea that because the world is wide …
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VIEW APRIL ISSUE In this month’s cover story, we’re going to Norway. Because there, amid the Scandinavian nation’s spectacular glaciers and deep …
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In 2015, the U.S. was ranked No. 1. Top of the heap. The best in the world. Then it started to slide… In …
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“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter. And in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. …
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Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week is that container ship crash in the …
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There comes a moment in Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, in which a character known as Pozzo announces “I am …
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Let me start today’s dispatch with a question: It’s Friday night. You put on a black dress. Where are you going? I’m betting …
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I blame Robinhood… By which I mean the stock trading app, not the legendary English outlaw famed for meting out vigilante justice in the …
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“What do you miss? What can I send you?” my friend asked as we wrapped up a Zoom call last week. I spent an hour or …
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