I blame Robinhood… By which I mean the stock trading app, not the legendary English outlaw famed for meting out vigilante justice in the …
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Escape Groundhog Day and Put Some Excitement Back in Your Life
“What do you miss? What can I send you?” my friend asked as we wrapped up a Zoom call last week. I spent an hour or …
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2 Clear Signs We’re in a Stock Market Bubble
Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week is fresh evidence of the markets losing all touch with …
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Get a “Sales Price” on Stocks With This Buying Strategy
“Shoppers: We have a Blue-Light Special going on right now…” If you’re as old as me (mid-50s), you might just recognize that from …
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A $69 Million JPG, Legal Marijuana, and a Wedding Trip to Montenegro
Dear Field Notes reader, Welcome to your weekly digest! As I mentioned in the inaugural digest last Sunday, these missives are your glimpse into …
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Buy This Asset Now to Guard Against the Impending Spike in Interest Rates
Dear Field Notes reader, I like charts. They cut through and clarify. They distill sometimes ephemeral concepts into concrete images that …
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The 100% Legal Way to Pay Zero Federal Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax
Dear Field Notes reader, Death and taxes. The only things that are certain in life. Or so Benjamin Franklin famously asserted in a 1789 letter, …
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We’re Headed Back to the Early ’90s…and Not in a Good Way
Things my children have never known: black-and-white TVs, rotary dial phones, cars without seat belts, Schoolhouse Rock!, the Cold War…and …
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These Stocks Are Poised to Jump Higher as the World Reopens
My landlord is working in the North Sea. He texted me to say he won’t be back until April. Not that you care about any of that. I mean, I don’t …
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Turning $495 Into Almost $20K in a Single Day
Welcome to our first weekly digest! This is a new concept I’m trying out as we embark on this era of Field Notes and …
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