When I started on the first version of this column a week or so ago, it began with the sentence: “And then bitcoin shrugged…” My original …
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Test-Driving Life at the End of the Earth
I have seen the end of the world. They speak Portuguese there. The end of the world, it turns out, is a spit of land in Sagres, Portugal that juts …
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My Wife’s Second Passport Mission to Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw in the winter. I can already feel the frostbite. But that’s where we’re now headed in my wife’s ongoing quest to re-establish her …
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A Forced Landing in Iran… What Could Go Wrong?
I’m gonna send your mind rooting through the Way Back Machine of your memory: The 1980s. Tom Wolfe. The Bonfire of the Vanities. If you read …
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The Asset That Saved Putin’s Goddaughter
You really never know what’s going to happen in life. One day, you’re the (rumored) goddaughter to one of the most powerful men in the world, …
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The 4 Looming Crises That Could Reshape Our World
With today’s dispatch, I am looking to the skies above… I’m peering up, over our heads, at a flock of “gray swans.” That’s the term economic …
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$24,000…From Something That Was Literally Free
With apologies to Adele for purposefully mangling her lyrics: I coulda had it all…rolling in the green. And in this case, that’s $24,000 …
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5 Reasons I Just Sold Out of Dollar Assets and Bought This Cryptocurrency
I woke up Monday morning with a purpose: I sat at my desk and the very first task of the day was selling all my U.S. dollar-based stablecoins (cryptos …
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Weekly Digest: Why Natural Gas Prices in Europe Just Dropped to Zero
Welcome to your Sunday digest…my breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First …
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I’m Bullish on These 2 Assets…Despite the Impending Recession
So many dots, so many connections. Let’s begin… As I walked to get a haircut this week, I was, as usual, scrolling the newsfeed on my phone …
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