Postcards: The Only Voice That Matters This Week

Dear Fellow Expat: Two weeks ago, I wrote my most important column of the year. I didn't think much about it then. I suggested that oil stocks might...

Here's What Happens When I Ask Hard Questions

Dear Fellow Expat: For the last two hours, I'd sat with a friend at the Baha Mar cigar bar in the Bahamas. We'd attended - as media - the FTX SALT...

Other Peoples' Kids, Icebreaker Stocks, and the Comedy of the Fed

Dear Fellow Expat: You know what I really like? Other people's kids. My daughter's schoolmate had a birthday party. The theme was dinosaurs. There...

S#*t Your Realtor Says

Dear Fellow Expat: The biggest house in my neighborhood is owned by a realtor. Custom-built, resembling the Canton Football Hall of fame, and enough...

It's Two O'clock Somewhere

Dear Fellow Expat: In the Florida Republic, Two O'clock quickly becomes Five O'clock as the season returns. The humidity is still somewhere between...

She's the One

We were driving up Interstate 83 when the love kicked in. It was St. Patrick's Day weekend. We were a mile from the Timonium Road...

I Think We Are Married Last Time I Checked

Dear Fellow Expat: "My name is Bob. I engaged in corruption for the duration of my political career. I took money from people who wanted me to use my...

Will The Fed Bankrupt the Tooth Fairy?

Dear Fellow Expat: Imagine for a moment that we become a cashless society. That payments are done by a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). No more...

Postcards: Tell Your Wife These Three Little Words

Dear Fellow Expat: I think today is the day... I'm going to tell her. It's been coming for a long time. Those three little words that will drive our...

Postcards: Captured by Vines... and Regulation

Dear Fellow Expat: Dear Fellow Expat: I'm fighting a losing battle. Yesterday, I paid a landscaping company to carve out about a 60-foot by 100-foot...

Dogs That Are Fluent in Spanish for $200, Alex.

Dear Fellow Expat: Her tail wagged. Then, it wagged harder. Then she jumped on the table. Gracie, our nine-year-old (give or take) Chihuahua mix,...

This Is My Biggest Economic Fear

Dear Fellow Expat: Tucker Carlson will release an interview tonight with Argentine presidential candidate and front-runner Javier Milei. Follow the...

Rapid Intensification

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot...

The Green Tragedy… and Red Momentum

Dear Fellow Expat: This morning’s CPI reading didn’t surprise anyone except for Paul Krugman. The embarrassing (but never embarrassed) economist...

Tesla’s (Driverless) Route to Dominance?

There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me – you...

The Oil Counter-narrative

Dear Fellow Expat: I’d prepared a screed on our Department of Energy. The incompetence at the top. The mismanagement of oil output in America. And...

Tales from Nextdoor and the Naples “Mom Page”

Dear Fellow Expat: Nextdoor.com is a social media site allowing neighbors to discuss all things local… Restaurant reviews, updates about loose...

Take A "Fantasy Break" and Make Some Actual Money This Weekend

Dear Fellow Expat: Psst… I know football season has started. I know your team's defense is "offensive"… And if you're like millions of Americans...

Mark It "Zero"... The Roof of the World... and the Week Ahead

Dear Fellow Expat:   Let’s pick up where we left off last Friday. Russia is working overtime to pump crude oil and natural out of ports in...

You’ll Want to Take the Stairs After This…

Dear Fellow Expat: Greetings from Doc's Beach House. This iconic dive bar sits 50 yards from the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ian wiped out the entire...

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