Substack Library

Glossary

Look Below the Placid Surface

The directors of such companies…being the managers rather of other people’s money rather than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which [they would] watch over their own.

Wealth, War& Rates

Readers, I was a guest on the Market Huddle podcast this week. Here is a recording if that’s of interest. I will also release a new podcast this weekend, a conversation with writer David McCloskey, once a spy, now a spy writer. Finally, while I wish I could give away the material for free, I can’t. The paywall compensates me and my team for the effort.

Bitcoin, Gold, Risk

Hello readers! Book #3, The Uncomfortable Truth About Money, is now available for pre-order. The publishers will release it just before the holiday season. This book is non-fiction, like my first one, Raising a Thief, which is about being a parent. Now I am working on a sequel to Master, Minion, which is fiction.

The Swing to Center

“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.” Ataturk.

Lucky America

To those of you who have not read my books Raising a Thief or Master, Minion we are slashing prices on the Kindle version for just this weekend. So download and enjoy and, if you like them, please post a review!

Letter from Buenos Aires

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Shifting Odds, High Stakes

“If a merchant should give silver to a trading agent for an investment venture, and he incurs a loss on his journeys, he shall return silver to the merchant in the amount of the capital sum.”

The Bust Within the Boom

“That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”

Hedging the Election

“I asked Truman for which foreign policy decision he most wanted to be remembered. He did not hesitate.’We completely defeated our enemies …,’ he remarked. ‘And then we helped them recover, to become democratic, and to rejoin the community of nations. Only America could have done that.’”

Navigating an Inverted Yield Curve

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”