Bad Juju. We return to gold… I sent you a dispatch last week about the Panama Route, a little-known anecdote from the Civil War in which steamers …
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The 3 Places That Feel Like Home
2 in America, 1 in Europe. Home, is where I want to beBut I guess I'm already there.I come home, she lifted up her wings,I guess that this must be …
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Things Could Be About to Change on This European Island Although Europe contains dozens of countries, when you drive across the continent—from …
BlackRock CEO: Bitcoin to Hit $700,000
In the Swiss Mountains, a Quiet Revolution… First slowly, then all at once. That’s how it has felt over the last few months in bitcoin relative to …
Treasure Convoys, the Civil War—and Gold Prices
How the “Panama Route” Saved the Union—and Could Save You… I don’t own gold because it might go through $2,700 or, for that matter, $3,000. I own …
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Capitalism—Heal Thyself
The Next Great Reset is Coming... I’ve always thought that if I could go back and experience any part of America’s storied history, I’d land in the …
TikTok Ban Backfires
Gen Z Discovers the “Little Red Book”… I don’t usually follow up a previous dispatch with another one on the same topic so quickly. But the last …
Banning TikTok Would Make Americans Poorer
The Government Wants Control Over Everything. We begin today with two of my personal biases: In the center of the Venn Diagram for those two …
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Bitcoin Could Soon Hit $150,000
Here’s How We Get There… I’m old enough to remember when a billion dollars was real money. Today? Pfffft. Piddling pocket change. No, …
Soil and Blood
Trump Plans to End This Law… President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the right to citizenship for babies born in the US to foreign parents. …