The deposit slip I found in my grandmother’s affects years ago says Donald Trump does not understand interest rates. That’s bad for all of us. On …
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A Portfolio That Gives You Financial Freedom—And Lifestyle Freedom
I’m going to do something a little different with this month’s Global Intelligence. I’m handing the reins over to my friend and colleague, …
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What Happens If America Cuts Off Trade With the World?
Well, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, which means that I was wrong… and Donald Trump is mad. As I noted in a dispatch earlier this week, …
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Canada to Join the European Union?
You say it here and it comes out there. It’s like magic! Earlier this month at the International Living Go Overseas Bootcamp in Tampa, I was …
Kroger and Amazon’s Message for America…
Kroger and Amazon have a message for America. It’s not a message anyone wants to hear. Kroger told Wall Street last week that the supermarket giant …
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I’m Defying Wall Street…
Eighty-five percent of Wall Street thinks I'm wrong. Seems like good odds to me. Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will step to the podium tomorrow …
A Letter of Apology
This is a letter of apology… though the risk is that it becomes an “I told you so.” I met a retiree named LeDonna last weekend at International …
9/11: Twenty-Five Years Later…
Was it real? Did I really see that? I feel confident I know what I saw. But even now, 25 years later, I still question myself about the …
The Hamilton Tunnel
What are you going to do when everything in your life costs 25% to 50% more? It's happened in America before. And it just might be coming back by …
The Triffin Dilemma
If you’ve been reading Field Notes for a while now, you may think a lot of what I write is doom-adjacent. And I agree! But I’m not really a …
