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Why Trump Won and What It Means for Everyone
The Eve of Destruction The day before the election, a family member asked me if I was ready for a “landslide.” He was confident Harris would win by historic proportions because “No woman or person of color is…
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How-to-Succeed-in-Business Books: Which Ones Can You Trust?
“I’m a sophomore in college, majoring in business, and I want to start my own business after I graduate. I’m taking all the usual courses on accounting, management, and finance, but I want to supplement what…
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Economy's Health Divides Trump And Harris Camps
The State of Our Economy: Republicans Are Saying One Thing, Democrats Another… and Both Have “Facts” to Prove Their Claims Here’s What I Think On Aug.16 and Aug. 23, I wrote about the key issues I believe…
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My Fourth-Quarter Advice to Kamala and The Donald, Part II
Last Friday, I wrote about the key issues Trump/Vance and Harris/Walz will be facing over the next two and a half months. A conservative-leaning reader complained, noting that most of the advice I gave was…
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The Election Is Getting Close: My Fourth-Quarter Advice to Kamala and The Donald
After my May 17 essay on the coming election, I received a few complaints from Trump supporters saying that it was nothing short of a battle plan for how the Dems could win. So this time, I’m going to even…
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There’s More Than One Way to Claim Victory
JG, a new friend I’m giving some advice to on how to grow his already successful business, wrote to me late last week. He mentioned, among other news, that he’d just returned to training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu…
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An Appetite for Destruction” by Bill Bonner
One of the qualities I most admire about Bill Bonner, with whom I’ve worked for nearly 30 years now, is his courage as a writer. When you have a large fan base, hundreds of thousands of readers that pay you…
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Lessons Learned on This Sojourn to Japan
I have learned so much on this trip. So much about Japan, Japanese culture and history, and the Japanese people that makes me feel a whole lot smarter than I was before. (Which is doubly impressive because…
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Meryl Nass: Why I’m a Fan
Dr. Meryl Nass is a board-certified internist and a biological epidemiologist with more than 40 years of experience in the medical field. Click here to see her very impressive CV. As a reader of this blog, you…
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Japan: A Culture of Hierarchy and Egalitarianism
I’ve always wanted to be one of those people – those self-improvement influencers – who go to bed very early, wake up very early, and accomplish a full day’s worth of work by the time their colleagues and…
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Debate Number One: Now What?
Now that the entire world has seen him in vivo, is it possible for anyone to deny the depth of President Biden’s cognitive decline? He looked, as he so often does when he’s not reading a teleprompter…
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Back in the Land of the Rising Sun
Day One in Tokyo Every time I visit Tokyo, I have the same thought: When it comes to luxuries and conveniences, the Japanese do everything we do, but better. And in many cases not just better, but much better…
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What City Kids Learn on My Farm
When they became empty-nesters, Larissa Phillips and her husband decided to give urban children and their parents a chance to spend a week on their 15-acre “hobby” farm. The idea was to provide an opportunity…
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Maybe the US Isn’t Rich After All
Most politicians and pundits claim that America is the richest country in the world. But Bill Bonner, writing in the June 10 edition of Bill Bonner’s Bonner Private Research, does a great job of exploding this…
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Voter Fraud and Election Interference
Does It Happen? If So, How Often? And Does It Matter? When Bush beat Gore in 2000 and the election was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court because of, among other things, the “hanging chads” issue in…
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Tired of the Relentless Struggle to Stay Lean?
Thinking (Like Me) About Oprah and Ozempic? Oprah’s many struggles with her weight appear to be over. Thanks to her recent highly publicized success with weight-loss drugs, their use has surged in popularity…
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Most Americans Don’t Know These Basic Facts About Our Population
An interesting poll from YouGov provides an idea of how out of touch Americans are with reality. Question: What percentage of the American population is Black? * What the Average American Thinks: 41% * The…
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If the Biden Management Team Had Only Listened to Me!
As even the Trump-hating New York Times admitted earlier this week, Donald Trump is leading in five of the “crucial battleground” states, according to a new poll conducted by the NYT, Siena College, and The…
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Aphorisms
I was having lunch with BW, a longtime friend and fellow wanderer through new adventures. He said he liked the quotations I included in the May 1 issue, especially the one from Van Gogh: “I would rather fail…
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If I Were President, I Would Not Sign This Treaty
I’m Hoping Biden Won’t Either WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland I haven’t commented on this story, although I’ve been following it for more than a year. The proposition seemed so outlandish, I couldn’t…
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More on My “Escape Plan from America
We got a slew of responses to the April 19 issue of “Just One Thing,” in which I referred readers to an essay written on a topic I sometimes think about: If American culture continues to disintegrate and the…
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A Primer on US Inflation Rates
In his column on Monday, Sean talked about an important subject that I don’t know enough about: how the government handles inflation. Let me start with this… What I Do Know I know that inflation, in simplest…
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Prioritizing Your Exit Plan
An increasing number of Americans and Brits believe their home countries are in decline, says Jeff Thomas in this essay from Doug Casey’s International Man. And some of them are wondering if they should have…
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Flukes, Fakes, and Statistical Uncertainties: What Happens When Physicists Fail
I used to have, what I’d call, a conventional view of science, scientists, and scientific facts. I believed in all of them implicitly. Then, about thirty years ago – and purely as a business decision – my…
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Is College Education a Scam?
Years ago, I argued with my Libertarian friends about the value of a college education. They saw it as a waste of time and a senseless expenditure of money. They thought this was especially true for anyone…
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Trump’s Truth Social’s multi-million-dollar valuation defies logic, some analysts say
“No shit,” says Garrett Baldwin in his March 26 issue of Postcards from the Florida Republic. He goes on... “Is Truth Social ‘expensive,’ ‘overvalued,’ and ‘divorced from fundamentals?’ “Damn right it is, but…
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Biden’s Dangerous Game at the UN
In the United Nations last week, the Biden administration softened its support of Israel once again – this time by dropping its threat to veto a resolution calling for “an immediate ceasefire [in Gaza] for the…
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The Connection Between Music and Numbers
The company I have worked with for nearly 30 years employs dozens of very good financial analysts. Some of them are technical. Some are fundamental. Some follow trends. Some follow momentum. And some follow…
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Reminder
Reminder: As I mentioned on Friday, I realize that my weekly posts have become quite long – maybe too long for some readers. So though I’ll continue to publish a full issue once a week, I’ll occasionally be…
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Brain Health
I know the weekly posts are quite long. I’ll shorten them up a bit by posting some of the briefs by themselves on other days. Today I’m sending you a short explanation of how the brain keeps itself healthy and…
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