Dear Field Notes reader, I like charts. They cut through and clarify. They distill sometimes ephemeral concepts into concrete images that …
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Dear Field Notes reader, I like charts. They cut through and clarify. They distill sometimes ephemeral concepts into concrete images that …
[Read more...] about Buy This Asset Now to Guard Against the Impending Spike in Interest Rates
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Dear Field Notes reader, Death and taxes. The only things that are certain in life. Or so Benjamin Franklin famously asserted in a 1789 letter, …
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My landlord is working in the North Sea. He texted me to say he won’t be back until April. Not that you care about any of that. I mean, I don’t …
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Welcome to our first weekly digest! This is a new concept I’m trying out as we embark on this era of Field Notes and …
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Two years ago this month I was traveling through Greece for 15 days, partly on a work assignment, partly on holiday with my …
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I can’t define it precisely, but there’s something explicitly romantic about Buenos Aires. You know how Vegas casinos supposedly pump oxygen …
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There’s an easy way to tell if someone understands the fundamentals of investing—ask them if extended warranties are a good idea. If …
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Once upon a time, a fox strolling through a vineyard on a hot summer's day came upon a trellis fat with ripe grapes dangling above. "Just the thing …
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Dear Field Notes reader, The sky opened up here in Prague recently. One minute, a gray winter’s day, a bit below freezing. The next…a winter …
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