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How I’m Shielding My Nest Egg From the Impending Market Crash

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 …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 21, 2021 ·

Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week is fresh evidence of the markets losing all touch with …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 16, 2021 ·

“Shoppers: We have a Blue-Light Special going on right now…” If you’re as old as me (mid-50s), you might just recognize that from …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 14, 2021 ·

Dear Field Notes reader, Welcome to your weekly digest! As I mentioned in the inaugural digest last Sunday, these missives are your glimpse into …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 13, 2021 ·

Dear Field Notes reader, I like charts. They cut through and clarify. They distill sometimes ephemeral concepts into concrete images that …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 12, 2021 ·

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, …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 11, 2021 ·

Things my children have never known: black-and-white TVs, rotary dial phones, cars without seat belts, Schoolhouse Rock!, the Cold War…and …