Jeff D. Opdyke

When my son was about 9 years old, he threatened to run away. He packed a Mickey Mouse bag with a soccer shirt, a baseball hat, one …

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This is a historic day for crypto. Starting today, El Salvador adopts bitcoin as one of its official currencies…marking the first time a country …

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Plus the Chinese Property Giant on the Brink of Collapse Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and …

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If you had the chance to turn 5% of your retirement account into a life-changing amount of wealth…but you had to risk losing the entire 5%, what …

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Plus Further Signs of Inflationary Pressures  Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about …

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A bird in the hand? Two in the bush? Or a pig in a poke?  Seems like the appropriate collection of possibilities when folks get to chatting …

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“Could we live there?” My wife posed that question in a video chat we had last weekend. “There” is Malta, where I’m on a research trip. She …

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Why I Don’t Miss the Suburban-Home, Three-Car Lifestyle  The church bells are ringing to mark the death of another …

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