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GlossaryLook Below the Placid Surface
April 26, 2024The 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
April 19, 2024Readers, 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
April 12, 2024Hello 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
April 5, 2024“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.” Ataturk.
Lucky America
March 28, 2024To 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
March 22, 2024This is a free post to give you a sense of what paid subscribers see. Writing these posts takes effort. If you value the content, sign up. Those funds help finance the research.
Shifting Odds, High Stakes
March 15, 2024“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.”
Hedging the Election
March 1, 2024“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
February 23, 2024“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”