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Don’t Believe the Big Lie—Here’s the Real Inflation Rate in America Right Now

Jeff D. Opdyke · April 6, 2021 ·

It’s the bullet you don’t hear. That’s the one that kills you. I assume that’s an old military truth. I heard the quote in some movie at some …

Jeff D. Opdyke · April 4, 2021 ·

Welcome to your Weekly Digest! To start this week, a quote: “The first guy through the wall—he always gets …

Jeff D. Opdyke · April 3, 2021 ·

I can have anything. I don’t know what I want! I call it the “paralysis of choice”—the idea that because the world is wide …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 31, 2021 ·

In 2015, the U.S. was ranked No. 1. Top of the heap. The best in the world. Then it started to slide… In …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 30, 2021 ·

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter. And in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 28, 2021 ·

Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week is that container ship crash in the …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 27, 2021 ·

There comes a moment in Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, in which a character known as Pozzo announces “I am …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 25, 2021 ·

Let me start today’s dispatch with a question: It’s Friday night. You put on a black dress. Where are you going? I’m betting …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 24, 2021 ·

I blame Robinhood… By which I mean the stock trading app, not the legendary English outlaw famed for meting out vigilante justice in the …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 23, 2021 ·

“What do you miss? What can I send you?” my friend asked as we wrapped up a Zoom call last week. I spent an hour or …