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The Fantasy Vs. the Reality of Living Overseas

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 14, 2021 ·

What I’ve Learned in 3 Years as an Expat Bureaucracy and prostitution both show up in the earliest written records of ancient Sumerian …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 13, 2021 ·

My daughter must have been about 7 years old when she asked me to increase her allowance by $2—just for that week, she …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 12, 2021 ·

How to Profit From Video Games...Without Even Playing I’m in the market for some property…of an entirely different sort. The property I …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 10, 2021 ·

Plus, New Zealand Acts to Tame Inflation Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 8, 2021 ·

My Crypto Account Dropped by $60K…And I Didn’t Care I recently had a reader chide me. Several weeks ago, I shared my positive …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 7, 2021 ·

A Shocking Number of Americans Want to Break Up the U.S. It was just about 10 years ago. I was dining in Madrid …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 6, 2021 ·

Today, I play the role of thief. I am stealing a word: geo-arbitrage. It’s a great word. I saw it in a story in Next …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 3, 2021 ·

Plus, the Fed’s Continued Newspeak on Inflation Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 2, 2021 ·

Just what I needed…on a day when my knees and back are hurting, a reminder of my inevitable decrepitude lands in my …

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 1, 2021 ·

The Benefits of Pursuing a Stupid Dream It’s not an Oscar or an Emmy, but I’ll still take it. I awoke a couple of weeks ago to …