Jeff Opdyke

This is a historic day for crypto. Starting today, El Salvador adopts bitcoin as one of its official currencies…marking the first time a country has taken this step. For crypto advocates (myself included), this is a moment of great excitement. However, big question marks remain… How exactly will this bitcoin economy operate? Will the people [Read More] …

Plus the Chinese Property Giant on the Brink of Collapse Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world.  First up this week, a smartphone game that gives you free crypto.  It sounds too good to be true, but Coin Hunt World is, in fact, very legit. It’s part [Read More] …

If you had the chance to turn 5% of your retirement account into a life-changing amount of wealth…but you had to risk losing the entire 5%, what would you do?  That’s actually not the hypothetical question it might seem to be. These days it’s a legit choice thanks to a financial services company called ForUsAll.  The firm recently announced its new [Read More] …

Plus Further Signs of Inflationary Pressures  Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world.  Yesterday, I returned home to Prague following my 10-day research trip to Malta. It was wonderful to be traveling again…particularly to a destination I’d never been to before.   At one point I was standing in the middle [Read More] …

A bird in the hand? Two in the bush? Or a pig in a poke?  Seems like the appropriate collection of possibilities when folks get to chatting about Social Security. Either take it as soon as you’re eligible…or wait a few years for a bigger payout…or just forget the whole shebang because the system is [Read More] …