Jeff D. Opdyke

Another day, another China-inspired bloodletting in the crypto market.  Maybe you saw—China is now pushing banks and financial-services …

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I don’t know if this is still a TV commercial in America, but maybe you remember it.   Some random guy successfully operates on a patient …

[Read more...] about Does Your Broker Have Your Best Interests at Heart? It’s Complicated…

You might recall that on Saturday, I wrote to you about Iron. Finance and how Mark Cuban and I got wrapped up in a crypto disaster last week. (If you …

[Read more...] about How I’m Earning 204% Interest (That’s Not a Typo)

Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. This week, …

[Read more...] about The Great Resignation: Are 40% of People About to Quit Their Jobs?

Today’s missive comes with a warning label: Tread cautiously. Maybe you heard about a little kerfuffle billionaire Mark Cuban had in the crypto …

[Read more...] about My Close Call With a Crypto Bank Run

Earlier this week, I met up with my landlord for some beef stroganoff at an al fresco café in Prague. As we drained our beers and waited on our …

[Read more...] about Why Cryptos Will Make It Easier to Live Overseas

Sacre bleu (or the Czech version thereof)! A half-liter of beer at one of my favorite parks where I often write here in Prague is now 42 Czech …

[Read more...] about What the Price of a Beer in Prague Tells Me About Inflation in America

In a moment, I’m going to tell about a new way I’ve discovered of owning physical gold. For my money, it’s the best and cheapest way of owning …

[Read more...] about The Best, Cheapest Way to Own Physical Gold

In March and April last year, right at the outset of the pandemic, I started writing about the long-term impact that COVID would have on the way we …

[Read more...] about Video: Why This Is the Perfect Time to Try Freelancing