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Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere
This morning, I took a break from the insanity of opening Bad Brothers Wine Experience in the Argentine outback to wander over to the local hospital for a quick check-up with friend and doctor Dr....
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$50 Trillion in Cash Is Sitting on the Sidelines Today
I have just come off what can only be described as “Hell Week” in opening Bad Brothers Wine Experience.To give you a sense of the enterprise, below are photos of Bad Brothers four days before we...
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Mosul, US Elections, and Other Madness
While the news is dominated by the most manic-depressive presidential election in modern times, there is a massive tragedy unfolding in the Iraqi city of Mosul.To most Americans, Mosul is just another...
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Democrazy
I began writing this week’s musings on a small notepad while sitting in the Homeowners Association Meeting here in La Estancia de Cafayate.For the record, I have a near phobic dislike of sitting in...
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Investment Survivor
My favorite reality TV show, Survivor, was created by the energetic and entirely self-made Mark Burnett.A British expat with zero experience in show business, Burnett managed to go from selling...
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Adventures in Castro’s Cuba
Some years ago my then girlfriend, now wife, Deirdre and I set off to search Planet Earth for our personal paradise.Cuba was one of the places we seriously considered.My logic at the time—and this...
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Interest Rates and the Toughest Man Who Ever Lived
I begin this week sitting at our dining room table here in Cafayate, Argentina. Out the window, the vista is brimming with sunshine, vineyards, lovely houses, and lovelier mountains across the...
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Markets Award Trump Nobel Prize in Economics
As today we are headed north to spend Christmas with the family, Jake Weber, the invaluable senior researcher of our premium Compelling Investments Quantified (CIQ) service has kindly offered to fill...
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Holiday Edition: Something Different
Given ‘tis the season and all that, we’re going to change things up a bit this week. We’ll take a break from delving into the mysterious workings of the global economy or investment markets, and from...
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Be the Bank
In our last edition before the New Year, I share an overview of an interesting and easy way to get a better return on your money. What’s most important, it allows you to largely side-step the risk and...
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The Fourth-Generation War
Welcome to 2017. As with every new year, or any stretch of 365 days into the future, we can expect surprises. Some good and some bad.Of course, we can’t know the future. Therefore, we are left to our...
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A Bullish Case for Gold
This week, I am happy to present an article by dear friend and business partner Olivier Garret, who makes the case for gold under President Trump.While Olivier is biased, given he founded the Hard...
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The Epidemic of Bad Ideas
This week’s missive tackles a big topic. One of the biggest.That’s because it touches virtually every corner of society: politics, the economy, investments, social order, innovation. People live or die...
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The Single Biggest Threat to Investing Success… and How to Manage It
Have you ever encountered a rotten egg?Remarkably, as someone who enjoys eggs with breakfast almost every day, I hadn’t.At least until earlier this week when I came across my first, honest-to-goodness...
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The Trader’s Guide to Trump
In last week’s edition of The Passing Parade, I made some comments of a generally pro-Trump nature that resulted in an exodus of about 1% of the subscribers to this publication.To which I say, thanks...
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How the Coming Wave of Job Automation Will Affect You
One of the more interesting mental exercises related to predicting the future involves trying to fathom the impact the rise of robots will have on humanity.We can be quite sure that in the proverbial...
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You Know You Are Suffering from a Mental Disorder When…
As we are hard at work on the next edition of Compelling Investments Quantified, for this week’s Parade, I am updating an article I initially wrote for my Sendero blog. While obviously biased, I think...
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Preparing for the Next Great Disruption
Entrepreneurially minded folks tend to favor the concept of “creative disruption.” It is understandable, too, as each new innovation creates a wealth of new commercial opportunities and potentially...
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Why Golf Doesn’t Suck
In my youth, I viewed golf as something only old people enjoyed. Make that OLD people.While I was never much for sports, in my early forties I discovered polo, one of the most exhilarating sports on...
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The Uncivil War and What You Can Do About It
Not to be overly dramatic, but a civil war has begun in America. Everyone knows it to be true, but no one knows what comes next.The conflict of visions between freethinkers and the socialists who...
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