99 Years Old Amazingly, Henry Kissinger is still alive. He was Richard Nixon’s right-hand man who went to the Saudis when the French sent a military boat to the shores of New York as a sign that they wanted to redeem their dollar holdings for gold bars. This was...
Biggest Threats of 2023 In 2010, I took on debt. Searching for deals in the housing sector after the 2008 bust, my agent brought me a seller-financed listing. It was a triplex that was newly built by an investor who partnered with a constructor. Because of the...
Russia, China and Saudi Arabia I explained how the petrodollar is, perhaps for the first time since 1944, in jeopardy of losing its status as a risk-free asset, an event that will have dire consequences for every American and, indeed, for every person, business and...
New Systems of Thought Have Arrived On January 31st 2022, my best friend’s wife was miraculously able (in my view) to give birth to their twin boys. The apartment they lived in became too small for their larger family of five, as they also parent a 6-year-old...
To Infinity and Beyond “This is the beginning of the new beginning,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson, who was sworn in this past May. He was talking about Artemis 1, which we’ll get to. In 2022, the race to space was boosted by thrust and...
Largest Amphibian Attack Ever In the near future, we could all wake up to the sound of sirens, breaking news, and the early stages of WW3, so unlike in the days of the original Pearl Harbor, I want to lay out how a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could go. To me, this...