Today, we pull out our Greek mythology textbook and we turn to the story of Scylla and Charybdis. I only know this story because of that lyric from …
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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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Today, we pull out our Greek mythology textbook and we turn to the story of Scylla and Charybdis. I only know this story because of that lyric from …
[Read more...] about Uncle Sam Is Buying His Own Debt…and That’s Bad News for You and Me
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Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the stories we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global …
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I had a feeling I’d seen this place before. And it nagged at me... This particular moment arose during one of my first weeks living in Prague, …
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Gold is about to have a moment. Whether that’s a good moment that sends the metal to a new all-time high, or a moment that sees gold slip backwards …
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Gold is about to have a moment. Whether that’s a good moment that sends the metal to a new all-time high, or a moment that sees gold slip backwards …
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The dollar is dead—long live the dollar! By which I mean that we—as a society of savers and investors—might have just found a new safe-haven …
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Jeff D. Opdyke · ·
Back in Louisiana, where I grew up, I have a stash of gold coins socked away…Austrian ducats, Dutch guilders, Mexican pesos, things like that. There’s …
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I mean, there are roller coasters…and then there’s bitcoin. The last year has been epic in so many ways. The world’s #1 cryptocurrency raced …
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Time heals all wounds—that’s a saying we’ve all heard. But time also has another knack: Exposing the small thinkers who can’t see beyond right now …
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