I pulled out my magical Way Back Machine for today’s dispatch. Our destination: June 29, 2007. It’s a Friday. The Standard & Poor’s …
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An Economic Hurricane is Looming on the Horizon
Testing the generator and filling a few spare gas cans… Those were the primary checks on my to-do list when I lived …
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In Debt They Trust: The Fed’s Crippling Addiction to Cheap Money
Let’s see if we’ve got this right: The U.S. economy is roaring ahead…yet it’s too weak to stand on its own, so the Federal Reserve needs to …
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Weekly Digest: Earning Big Returns on Real Estate in Europe
Plus BlockFi Faces Scrutiny From Regulators Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of …
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What Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Get About Crypto
My Open Letter to the Crypto Naysayers Note to Readers: If anyone knows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, maybe slip her a …
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We Need to Talk About a Difficult Topic
70% of Us Would End Up Using This Kind of Insurance If you do not wish to contemplate your own mortality, please turn away now. …
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Why Your Retirement Check From Uncle Sam Should Be $7,831 Per Month
“Every time you earn a nickel, someone takes a dime.” That was my grandmother’s favorite way of complaining about the cost of living in …
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Weekly Digest: Troubling Signs for the U.S. Property Market
And the Growing Threat From Inflation Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the …
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Crypto Mining: Your Questions Answered on Costs, Equipment, and More
An email prompted this. Well, a few actually. But one in particular. It was from a reader calling “BS” on the video I shared last …
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Daydreaming About Iceland…
A Trip Down the Digital Nomad Rabbit Hole Maybe I’ve just huffed too much jet fuel… But here I am, al frescoing again at one of …