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Weekly Digest: Win Free Crypto by Playing a Smartphone Game

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 5, 2021 ·

Plus the Chinese Property Giant on the Brink of Collapse Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 4, 2021 ·

If you had the chance to turn 5% of your retirement account into a life-changing amount of wealth…but you had to risk losing the entire 5%, what …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 29, 2021 ·

Plus Further Signs of Inflationary Pressures Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 28, 2021 ·

A bird in the hand? Two in the bush? Or a pig in a poke? Seems like the appropriate collection of possibilities when folks get to chatting …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 26, 2021 ·

“Could we live there?” My wife posed that question in a video chat we had last weekend. “There” is Malta, where I’m on a research trip. She …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 25, 2021 ·

Why I Don’t Miss the Suburban-Home, Three-Car Lifestyle The church bells are ringing to mark the death of another …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 24, 2021 ·

It all began with an iPhone, an 80-year-old man, a cement truck, and a street barely wide enough for two donkeys to pass without their ears …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 23, 2021 ·

Don’t judge me. I was just a kid. But here goes: It was the summer of 1976. I was 10 years old. Sunbeam Bread, the big bread brand …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 22, 2021 ·

Plus Early Signs of a Market “Taper Tantrum” Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about …

Jeff D. Opdyke · August 21, 2021 ·

My childhood best friend, Jim, texted me recently. He was excited—he’d just bought a power supply for a computer off eBay, the first …