When Our Economy Circles the Drain, I’ll Just Say I Told Ya So. This is one of those “I told ya so” dispatches. To be clear, though, this …
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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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When Our Economy Circles the Drain, I’ll Just Say I Told Ya So. This is one of those “I told ya so” dispatches. To be clear, though, this …
[Read more...] about Land of the Indebted, Home of the Coming Recession
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A Million Transactions Per Second… Today’s dispatch starts with a statistic most people won’t know or care about. But it’s a number that will …
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Do Debts and Deficits Really Matter? Maybe those addle-brained homeless dudes holding up signs urging “Repent! The end is nigh” were right after …
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My New Side-Hustle Exists Only in the Cryptoconomy Greetings from wet and cold Amsterdam. Great city. Less-than-great weather. But coastal, …
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The American Consumers Lives and Breathes Debt I’m sure that somewhere in your past, you’ve heard the snarky comment about “Rearranging deck chairs …
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VIEW OCTOBER ISSUE This month, we’re taking stock — literally — in a niche energy investment that that is rising, despite volatility in the oil …
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A Bitcoin ETF Will Open the Floodgates for Crypto I wasn’t going to write about bitcoin and crypto again this week. …
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America is being held hostage. By a number. That number: 2%. Now, I wish I could tell you that I’m talking about 2% milk, which is an …
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The Asset That Makes Ivory Tower Economists Look Like Fools Does something evil this way come? The gold market …
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