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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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A 50% Tax Break for Working From a European Beach? Yes, Please…
Two years ago this month I was traveling through Greece for 15 days, partly on a work assignment, partly on holiday with my …
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Why You Don’t Need Argentina’s New Digital Nomad Visa
I can’t define it precisely, but there’s something explicitly romantic about Buenos Aires. You know how Vegas casinos supposedly pump oxygen …
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The Most Important Lesson You’ll Ever Learn About Investing
There’s an easy way to tell if someone understands the fundamentals of investing—ask them if extended warranties are a good idea. If …
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto
Once upon a time, a fox strolling through a vineyard on a hot summer's day came upon a trellis fat with ripe grapes dangling above. "Just the thing …
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