Jeff Opdyke

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] …

“Could we live there?” My wife posed that question in a video chat we had last weekend. “There” is Malta, where I’m on a research trip. She couldn’t tag along on my adventure this time, but she continued from afar the game we play in every city we visit: Could we see ourselves living there? [Read More] …

Why I Don’t Miss the Suburban-Home, Three-Car Lifestyle  The church bells are ringing to mark the death of another hour in Pjazza San Guzepp in the little village of Qala on the Maltese island of Gozo.   Feels like it’s 8 p.m. Or 10 p.m. Who knows? Time seems ephemeral here as diners, some sitting at tables literally in the street, spend a few hours chatting and sampling wine and pasta in the cool evening air.  Dinner [Read More] …