Some people are calling it farmageddon. I’m gonna go with coffeeasco. (That’s coffee + fiasco). I’m traveling this week and before I …
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Video: Why We Need to Worry About Amazon’s Robotic Revolution
Amazon is a big player in the world of robotics and recently the company unveiled a brand-new device that has the potential to be a game-changer—the …
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My Surprising Discovery in Saudi Arabia
“This looks just like Vegas.” Hadi looked at me, shocked. “Really?” he said, disbelieving. This Vegas doppelgänger I speak …
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Get a Double Discount on One of My Favorite Assets
What’s better than a discount? A double discount! And right now, that’s exactly what you can get on one of my favorite assets…an asset class …
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Why the Uber-Rich Are Preparing to Abandon America
Sometimes it helps to watch what the billionaire class is doing… To be clear, I don’t mean we need to pay attention to their grotesque, …
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I Agree With Putin on This One
A chance exists that today’s dispatch is a lie. Or it might be true on some level. Nevertheless, I share this story with you because …
Weekly Digest: Dallas Cowboys Owner Scores Big With a Natural Gas Play
Welcome to your Sunday digest…my breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First up …
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The American Dream…But Flavored With Different Spices
My first house, in a Dallas suburb called Flower Mound, cost $117,000, which included the $10,000 cost for a new salt-water pool. My salary …
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Why My Friend Plans to Buy a Maltese Passport
You have to walk a mile in a man’s moccasins to understand why he wants a second passport from Malta. I come to this observation after a …
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Own the Next Bart Simpson or Bugs Bunny…for Just a Few Hundred Bucks
It’s 1987. Some 32-year-old guy you’ve probably never heard of at that point—Matt Groening—hits you up for a couple of hundred dollars. He has a …
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