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As I write this, Tropical Storm Gordon is churning toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This storm is strengthening. It may be a hurricane by the time it slams into land. And that makes me think about...
One-hundred and twenty billion dollars is a lot of money. It’s roughly equal to the entire annual economic output of Kuwait — or Uruguay and Panama combined, if you prefer. It’s enough to buy...
The trade war is on. Oh, it’s on like Donkey Kong! And while President Trump is handing out heaping helpings of tariff tough talk to Mexico, Canada and Europe, he’s saved his special ire for...
All of us have enduring childhood summer memories. I remember the sweet taste of fat, wild blackberries we picked by the Puyallup River, the neighborhood pickup game of baseball in the cow...
When it comes to gas prices, you can’t blame consumers for not knowing whether they’re coming or going, due to all the geopolitical problems bubbling to the surface. But there IS good news, at...
Politicians throw the word “trillion” around so much these days that it is easy to forget how truly massive a trillion really is. A trillion is one thousand billions, or 1,000,000,000,000. ...
When you get married, you pledge to stand by your spouse “in sickness and in health.” That’s a great way to maintain wedded bliss. But it’s a lousy strategy for investors. Instead, when the...
I was raised on a vegetable farm near Tacoma, Wash., and attended the University of Washington. And even though I moved to Asia years ago, my brother, sister, daughter and my precious 8-month-old...
If you’ve been reading this Monday column for the past couple of weeks, you know that I spend much of my time scouring the globe to find companies that are leading the digital money revolution. ...
Times have sure changed. When I was in first grade, a few of my classmates gave me a hard time because “Made in Japan” toys were so poorly constructed that they often fell apart after a few...