In 2015, the U.S. was ranked No. 1. Top of the heap. The best in the world. Then it started to slide… In 2016 and 2017, it was No. 3. In the two years after that, it fell to fifth and sixth, respectively. Now, it’s seventh. You can see the pattern. The ranking I’m talking about here is the Henley Passport Index, [Read More] …
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Uncle Sam’s Debt Spiral: Time to Protect Our Finances
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter. And in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: They’re both mad.” “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here.” Welcome [Read More] …
What the Suez Canal Crash Means for Our Pocketbooks
Welcome to your Weekly Digest! First up this week is that container ship crash in the Suez Canal. I’m sure you’ve seen the images. A ship the length of the Empire State Building got turned sideways going through that crucial, extremely narrow waterway linking East and West…blocking any ships from passing. Last I checked, it was holding up an estimated $9.6 billion in goods every day, [Read More] …
How I’m Shielding My Nest Egg From the Impending Market Crash
There comes a moment in Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, in which a character known as Pozzo announces “I am blind!” Estragon, one of the two main characters, ponders this for moment, and then casually suggests, “Perhaps he can see into the future.” Of course, Pozzo cannot see into the future. He’s just a foolish aristocrat playing at being important. [Read More] …
These New Crypto Tokens Are Going to Change the World
Let me start today’s dispatch with a question: It’s Friday night. You put on a black dress. Where are you going? I’m betting most people will say “party.” And that’s a fine answer. It’s the right answer in the context of today’s missive. But just as easily you could be a widow headed to a wake for your [Read More] …