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Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    You’re Either Living or You’re Not (opens the original)

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    There used to be a middle.Okay job. Okay house. Okay car. Okay life.Nobody was watching you, and you weren’t really watching anybody else. You just got by, and getting by was fine.That middle is gone.I see it everywhere now. Most people feel it even if they haven’t put words to it yet.Two splitsThe first one everybody knows about.Money.Everything costs more every year. The people building wealth keep pulling ahead, and the people who aren’t keep falling further behind. Just getting by is harder

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    It’s All True & Still Your Fault (opens the original)

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    Victim mentality does not announce itself. That is the whole problem with it. Nobody wakes up and decides to be a victim, and nobody would accept the label. It arrives quietly. It shows up as a reasonable sentence about interest rates, or wages, or the cost of a starter home in a city you have decided you have to live in. Every one of those sentences can be true. That is what makes it work. A lie would be easy to reject. A true fact used as a permission slip is much harder to see for what it is.

  3. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    The Gentleman’s Guide to Picking the Right House (opens the original)

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    This one is not about cars. If you have been buying what I have been writing about, those cars should be sitting a good bit higher than where you bought them, so now we can talk more about the other “alternative” asset, real estate.When I was younger, I had the whole thing mapped out. I would work hard, save, buy a rental, then another, and eventually own a commercial building or two. I loved the idea of owning something physical. You can drive past a building and look at it. You cannot drive pa

  4. Issue · Aug 10, 2026

    Twenty Men Wearing the Same Watch Is Not a Coincidence (opens the original)

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    Last week I ended up somewhere I would not normally go. One of those lounge and cocktail places, I enjoy them but this one was in the less quiet side of town. My wife and I got a table with a clear view of the door, which turned out to be the best seat in the building for reasons that had nothing to do with the drinks, because over the next hour or so maybe thirty people walked through that door and I watched every one of them.Almost every man had a watch on and it was not a variety of watches,

  5. Issue · Jul 27, 2026

    You Are Not Researching, You Are Hiding (opens the original)

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    Research is the only form of cowardice that looks like workI am the biggest researcher, I always have been. Every single thing I do I have researched something about it. After years of doing this unconsciously here is what I have learned and what makes it so dangerous. If you avoid the hard thing by playing video games, or drinking/drugs someone will eventually say something. Your wife will look at you a certain way. You will feel it yourself, in the specific way that wasted time announces itsel

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