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 "melting" and "soaking". But that will soon pass – as October gives way to somewhat more reasonable temperatures. The snowbirds are starting to fill up the bars. It's competitive at 3 p.m. […]
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She's the One
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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 exit… on the way to the An Poitin Stil, a bar my father opened in the late 1990s.
The sky was grey.
The car (a blue Honda Civic) was terrible.
But on the radio… was the song "Juicy" by the hip-hop artist Notorious B.I.G.
I Think We Are Married Last Time I Checked
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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 power to help them make an absurd amount of money. I was wrong. I should not have done this… However, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts […]
Will The Fed Bankrupt the Tooth Fairy?
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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 dollar bills… no more quarters, nickels, or dimes. All… on your phone. Forget the government tracking… the invasion of privacy… the central bank's ability to see everything you buy… […]
Postcards: Tell Your Wife These Three Little Words
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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 future. Three sobering terms bind our fiscal and emotional bonds. "Higher for longer." Yes, my love, the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates higher for longer. […]
Postcards: Captured by Vines... and Regulation
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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 area of land in my backyard. Rip out the soil. I'm putting in some fences. I'm putting stones in the path. I'm looking to build a garden surrounded by mango […]
Dogs That Are Fluent in Spanish for $200, Alex.
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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, couldn't contain her excitement. After a six-week delay, we finally got our new couch. But she wasn't thrilled about a new place to sleep during the afternoon. The two men assembling […]
This Is My Biggest Economic Fear
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Dear Fellow Expat: Tucker Carlson will release an interview tonight with Argentine presidential candidate and front-runner Javier Milei. Follow the U.S. media focus on Milei, and you’ll see he’s labeled as “right-wing,” “radical”, and “libertarian.” The attacks on his economic plans are all-out nuclear assaults… largely because he’s exposing the endgame of problems still building […]
The Green Tragedy… and Red Momentum
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Dear Fellow Expat: This morning’s CPI reading didn’t surprise anyone except for Paul Krugman. The embarrassing (but never embarrassed) economist has said over the last few months that inflation is falling. The same message goes for sycophants who are: Protecting their political asses. Doing all they can to deflect from the inflation they caused by […]
Free Insurance on a Burning House and Crushed SUV
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Dear Fellow Expat, What would you do with $700 right now? Would you rent a hotel for two days in a nearby city? Maybe attend a special dinner with a friend or loved one? Pay down debt? Well, in my case, a bill arrived yesterday for six months of car insurance. We put up about […]
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