A Shocking Number of Americans Want to Break Up the U.S. It was just about 10 years ago. I was dining in Madrid at Sobrino de Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world, with a bunch of colleagues who’d gathered to think big thoughts about tomorrow. The question was asked. Best I can recall, it was something along the lines [Read More] …
“Geo-Arbitrage”: A Simple Strategy for a High-Quality Retirement
Today, I play the role of thief. I am stealing a word: geo-arbitrage. It’s a great word. I saw it in a story in Next Advisor, some kind of personal-finance website tied to Time magazine. Never heard of the site before. But it popped up in my newsfeed with a story about a guy who moved his family to the Carolinas from New York [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: What China’s Electricity Crisis Means for You and Me
Plus, the Fed’s Continued Newspeak on Inflation 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…China. In September, China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 49.6. The PMI is based on surveys of senior executives across a swath of sectors and is a key indicator [Read More] …
Why I’ll Be Turning Down Uncle Sam’s Cash for 8 Years
Just what I needed…on a day when my knees and back are hurting, a reminder of my inevitable decrepitude lands in my inbox. Yippie. To be clearer, my annual Social Security benefits statement just arrived. At full retirement age—67 for me—Uncle Sam will send me $2,872 a month until my oxygen subscription expires. If I wait three [Read More] …
My Totally Unexpected $1,000 Payday From Hollywood
The Benefits of Pursuing a Stupid Dream It’s not an Oscar or an Emmy, but I’ll still take it. I awoke a couple of weeks ago to an email congratulating me on winning the grand prize in a screenwriting competition. The award was for a romantic comedy I completed earlier this year. I was surprised. The script had been doing [Read More] …
