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What Collecting Baseball Cards Taught Me About Money

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 12, 2021 ·

In 1960—six years before I invaded the world—a 12-card pack of Topps baseball cards cost a dime. I know this because in 10th grade I worked in a …

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 10, 2021 ·

Back in my college days at Louisiana State University, I needed to take a class I was sure to hate: philosophical logic—philosophy peppered with …

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 7, 2021 ·

My landlord texted me, clearly in a panic… Late last year, we sat down for coffee on a snowy morning in Prague. He wanted to pick my brain …

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 6, 2021 ·

Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. This week, …

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 3, 2021 ·

With today’s dispatch, I thought I’d try something a little different: Answering reader questions. A lot of questions flow into my …

Jeff D. Opdyke · June 1, 2021 ·

Today, we pull out our Greek mythology textbook and we turn to the story of Scylla and Charybdis. I only know this story because of that lyric from …

Jeff D. Opdyke · May 30, 2021 ·

Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the stories we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global …

Jeff D. Opdyke · May 29, 2021 ·

I had a feeling I’d seen this place before. And it nagged at me... This particular moment arose during one of my first weeks living in Prague, …

Jeff D. Opdyke · May 27, 2021 ·

Gold is about to have a moment. Whether that’s a good moment that sends the metal to a new all-time high, or a moment that sees gold slip backwards …

Jeff D. Opdyke · May 25, 2021 ·

The dollar is dead—long live the dollar! By which I mean that we—as a society of savers and investors—might have just found a new safe-haven …