In March and April last year, right at the outset of the pandemic, I started writing about the long-term impact that COVID would have on the way we work. I was immediately convinced that this crisis would be transformative to the global economy and, specifically, to the U.S. workforce. So it has proved. Over the [Read More] …
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Amazon Is Sharing Your WiFi…Here’s How to Make It Stop
Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. This week we begin with a public service announcement: Tell Alexa to quit sharing your WiFi. You may have heard this story, but if not, here’s the deal. Since 2018, Amazon Echo smart speakers [Read More] …
What Collecting Baseball Cards Taught Me About Money
In 1960—six years before I invaded the world—a 12-card pack of Topps baseball cards cost a dime. I know this because in 10th grade I worked in a sports memorabilia shop where I spent my paycheck buying baseball cards from 1960…still my favorite year for baseball cards because I think the horizontal card design is [Read More] …
The Fed Is Actively Telling Us to Buy This Asset
Back in my college days at Louisiana State University, I needed to take a class I was sure to hate: philosophical logic—philosophy peppered with algebraic-like symbols and geometric-like theorems. Thing is, I actually ended up loving the class and this idea of seeking and defining truths, possibilities, and probabilities through a form of mathematical logic. [Read More] …
The Key Lesson Everyone Needs to Learn About Investing—When to Sell
My landlord texted me, clearly in a panic… Late last year, we sat down for coffee on a snowy morning in Prague. He wanted to pick my brain about the crypto market. All his buddies on the oil rigs he services in the North Sea were raving about oodles of money they were raking in [Read More] …