A new report popped up in my inbox that I want to tell you about today. The report’s title: Danger Zone—Global retirement security challenges come …
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I Murdered Rudolph…and I’d Do It Again
I killed Rudolph. Not directly, mind you, but I do have reindeer blood on my hands. In my defense, his fur felt warm and I knew it would look …
Digest: The Shocking Truth About Salaries in the U.S.
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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Video: The One Upside to the Recent Crypto Volatility
The recent collapse of the crypto exchange FTX has had a significant impact on the crypto market, pushing down the prices of many tokens. It has …
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What Now for Bitcoin After the FTX Debacle?
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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