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Why Stock Trading Apps Are Destroying the U.S. Economy

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 …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 9, 2021 ·

My landlord is working in the North Sea. He texted me to say he won’t be back until April. Not that you care about any of that. I mean, I don’t …

Jeff D. Opdyke · March 7, 2021 ·

Welcome to our first weekly digest! This is a new concept I’m trying out as we embark on this era of Field Notes and …