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Jeff Opdyke

4 “Fallouts” From a Weaker Dollar

Jeff Opdyke · April 29, 2025 ·

“Never wrong—just early.” Way back in my very earliest days in The Wall Street Journal’s Dallas bureau, an editor in New York asked me to step in and fill a void for a reporter who was out sick. I was to write an investment piece for the “Heard on The Street” column—at the time (1993) [Read More] …

Trump Wants to Destroy the Dollar

Jeff Opdyke · April 26, 2025 ·

You Need to Prepare… So there’s this fox… and there’s this goat. And the goat is wandering through a field one day when he hears odd noises nearby. The goat follows the sound and soon comes upon a well and looks in—and sees a fox at the bottom of the well. “What are you doing [Read More] …

How to Spot a Crypto Scam

Jeff Opdyke · April 15, 2025 ·

One Reader’s Horror Story… This is one of those columns I hate to write… But there’s a cautionary tale here in the lesson to be learned. An “Ask El Jefe” email landed in my inbox recently, from a reader who put some money to work in a cryptocurrency trading program. And as he told me, [Read More] …

Could Uncle Sam Confiscate Your Gold?

Jeff Opdyke · April 10, 2025 ·

Even If It’s Held Overseas? Today, we start with a most-excellent question from a reader named Ioanna: I’ve been reading on the internet that no matter where a US citizen holds gold assets (ETFs or bullion) the US government can seize them… So why buy gold and then have to hand it over to the government? [Read More] …

The Key to Successful Crypto Investing

Jeff Opdyke · April 3, 2025 ·

Sun Tzu Had the Right Idea… Sun Tzu would’ve been a pretty good crypto trader. I feel certain of that. I read Sun Tzu’s famous The Art of War probably 40 years ago. I’d gone to see the movie Wall Street (still my all-time favorite, though only barely above Lost in Translation and, probably, Crash), [Read More] …

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