Discover where to live, invest, and retire in 2026’s #1 economy. Next month, I turn 60. For anyone shopping for presents, I think I’d look tres …
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How We Found the Real Portugal
And the Mistakes We Made Along the Way When last we left El Jefe and his Field Notes tales, he and his wife had made a mistake. It wasn’t an …
Meet/Quiz the Man Who Helped Me Move to Portugal
Two winters in Prague was enough for Yulia, my wife. She adored the city. Loved the area where we lived just two metro stops from Old Town, easily …
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Don’t Fall for the No Income Tax Fantasy
The Math Isn’t Adding Up… We’re nowhere near April, but income taxes are everywhere in the news these days… and, I can assure you, all over …
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Here’s What Disaster Looks Like
Why a Politicized Fed is So Dangerous We have a winner! Which, unfortunately, means American households are about to become losers. The winner is …
Dollar Apocalypse Now
2 Events That Spell Doom for USD Now, I do not expect you to know this news. Maybe you heard it; maybe not. But it’s big news that has big …
The Rising Sun’s Setting on Easy Money
The sun is setting in the Land of the Rising Sun. The world awoke Monday morning to news of Japan’s 10-year bond yields surging to 1.84%—the highest …
Is Silver’s Super-Cycle Coming?
Why Silver Hitting $300 Isn’t Crazy The devil is having a moment… A bit more than four years ago, I sent my monthly Global Intelligence Letter to …
The American Middle Class is Dead… And the Stats Prove It
The True Poverty Line in America Today, we’re going to play a game I’m calling “True or Stupid.” The rules are simple: I’m going to give you a …
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The Dollar’s Decline Doesn’t Stop at US Borders
Panama and the Global Dollar Problem Today, we delve into the bag of Ask El Jefe questions and the one we pull out is from Steve M., who has …
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