Back in my earliest days as a Wall Street Journal writer in the Dallas bureau, I was visiting the mothership in New York City when I bumped into the …
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What the Media Gets Completely Wrong About Moving Overseas
Anyone who grew up in the South knows the manifestation of good intentions gone bad. One word: kudzu. The …
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This European Country Will Pay You to Visit
Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week…a little travel. As I noted in yesterday’s …
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Russia’s Different Than You Imagine…And There’s a Way We Can Profit From That
EKATERINBURG, Russia: Perception vs. reality. I think about this notion in some fashion whenever I’m on the road somewhere in the world, …
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Are Cryptocurrencies in a Bubble?
It’s the question of the moment: Are cryptocurrencies in a bubble? Prices for so many crypto projects have run up by …
Should You Buy Coinbase Stock? Here’s My Take
Welcome to your Weekly Digest! I’m writing this week’s missive from Ekaterinburg, east of the Ural Mountains in Russia. My Russian wife says …
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The Next Crisis…and the Tool You Need to Protect Yourself From It
My wife, Yuliya, and I were on a leisurely stroll through the Adriatic town of Budva, Montenegro. It’s a lovely little town, swaddled …
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A New, Cheaper Way to Buy Bitcoin Is Coming…But You Shouldn’t Use It
Right now, there are basically two ways to invest in bitcoin. You can buy it through a brokerage or payments firm such …
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Video: How to Build a Crypto-Mining Rig
When I lived in California back in 2017, I decided to build a cryptocurrency mining rig, a computer that solves complex math problems to find new …
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Use This Asset to Protect Yourself (and Profit) From the Coming Crisis
Sometime in 1911, maybe it was 1913—history seems unclear on this—coal miners began carrying caged canaries with them into the mine. When the little …
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