John T. Reed’s comments on headline news stories
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The bullet at Baldwin’s movie set
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Malkiel’s stock recommendation: 82% top 50 US and 18% top 50 international
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Should you buy Costco gold or solver bars? No. Here’s why.
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Wall Street Journal article article on retirement finances leaves out home equity
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Staging and fixing houses are rarely profitable, a waste of your money.
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Two 3/30/24 Wall Street Journal article gold statements worth noting
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Investment Basics
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Silver is better than gold but nickel is much better than both for hedging against inflation
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Nickel is a buy and a better inflation hedge than gold or silver
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Gold is now double its real long term average price. Sell.
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REDDIT real estate investor leery of creepy agents want to lease his property
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A bunch of lawyer parents suing each other over Little League cheating.
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Profit from cosmetic rehab sought by a REDDIT reader is a myth
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REDDIT reader wants to know whether to buy negative-cash-flow triplex
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How do you buy real estate with crypto? Should you?
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Do not complicate your real estate investing with LLCs or other such nonsense
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Should you take advantage of an assumable low-interest-rate mortgage
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Get title insurance when you buy real estate or do a thorough title search yourself
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I will believe real estate commissions will fall when I see it
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REDDIT reader worried about IRC §1031 tax-free exchanges
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West Point removing the words Duty Honor Country from mission statement
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No tax benefits for owning a duplex in a state where you do not live
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How to add a bedroom and bath profitably, as opposed to REDDIT nonsense
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RED ALERT: Heritage Foundation gives us only a “few years” until all tax revenue must be spent on debt
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Storing important things where you and your heirs can find them
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China is a paper tiger militarily compared to the US and its allies.
Beware of locking in ‘high’ interest rates
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Gold is an awful inflation hedge, here’s a better one
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Who is the better parent: Trump or Biden?
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Nuclear attack on US satellites
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Colleges claiming anew that they teach students how to think critically, but they do not
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‘Experts’ still implying you should wait to buy a home because of poor analysis
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McNamara’s morons during the Vietnam War, drafting the unfit to protect the elite
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Stop giving athletes extra credit for come-from-behind victories. When you scored is meangingless.
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In Superbowl, Tony Romo incorrectly said Mahomes should have spiked the ball with :26 left in regulation.
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Deflation in China; possible here? What to do.
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Wall Street Journal says home buying math no longer good. Bull!
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The best real interest rate yield you can get is probably paying down one of your loans
A reverse mortgage is a great way to profit from inflation by shorting the purchasing power of the US dollar
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Wall Street Journal says China may get deflation. What is that?
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Do not buy rental property; just more and more expensive principal residences.
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Wall Street Journal says crypto may be too popular to die. Bull!
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How your upcoming or recent graduate can succeed in the real world
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Open letter to Steve Forbes about his wanting to return to a gold standard
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Opinion polls about abstract policy questions are not reliable predictors of elections.
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WSJ says gold near record. No. Still about $500 away from the record.
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Wall Street Journal still pushing the 1930 60-40 strategy and its mere 5% returns
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Democrats are going to hold their 2024 convention in Chicago. No joke.
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Nobody is ready for a world war, including China.
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Calm down about AI. It is not regulatable.
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Shoudl we send US troops to Taiwan
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Hyperinflation will be worse than the Great Depression
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You gotta be nuts to buy an annuity today
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Interesting juxtaposition of diversified assets in Wall Street Journal’s 4/1/23
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Dems have gone too far by indicting Trump
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Wall Street Journal keeps hiding the great success of homes as an investment
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The world’s greatest short is available to you.
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Get the biggest 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage on your home that you can safely afford.
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Nicole Friedman of the Wall Street Journal seems to be ignoring all home data from before 2013 in her incessant bad-mouthing of homes as investments
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Start colon cancer screening when you hit 40. Previous age to start now obsolete.
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ alleged ‘racist rant’ was no such thing.
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Rejected first three comments here—I rarely had to do that on Facebook
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This new blog has been made necessary by excessively woke censorship at Facebook.
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Tucker going conspiracy theorist. Too bad.
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We need a Main Street Journal to supplement or replace the Wall Street Journal
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Another secret documents special counsel. Has the double standard ended?
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Another Air Disasters program—Airbus losing ALL fuel over the atlantic
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The fact that it is so hard to learn the actual life cost of heat pumps tells you they are not cost effective
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Our smiley HVAC high bidder gets his comeuppance
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Can crypto risks be managed?
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65-7 FBS score?—and it wasn’t that close
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Why gold is not the best hedge against inflation
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The Wall Street Journal keeps telling Biden how to avoid inflation. Biden does not care. But the Journal never tells you how to save yourself.
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What to do about the few high schools who slaughter almost everyone else
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Time to stop pretending the Army-Navy game is what it was back in the day
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Gasparino says home prices will fall. He does not know what he is talking about.
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foreign countries do not have the fabulous home mortgages Americans can get.
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WSJ says the Austin home market ‘cool[ed] way, way down,’ but they leave out home mush homes there went up in the last 12 months. Why?
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WSJ again features all home stats that are down and puts the prices are up in the last paragraph.
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The Wall Street Journal continues trying to bad mouth home values even though they keep going up
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Browns lost to the Jets because of a clock-management screw-up—tell the Browns’ media
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Stop using the word “strategic” on things like small islands and canals. Too easy for ICBMs to destroy.
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Weight loss requires eating less. Exercise is a good idea for other reasons, but it is a brutal way to get trim.
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Interesting ways of using crypto in Argentinian hyperinflation
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Home sellers worry they waited too long to sell. Not until prices fall they did not. The ‘Wave’ prices are still there.
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The vast majority of rehabs are NOT profitable. Here are some that ARE profitable.
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Wall Street Journal continues its incessant anti-buy-a-home campaign
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Check out usmadata.com for what you need to know about West Point that West Point won’t tell you
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US dollar death spiral or vicious circle? Either way, we are about to hit a wall.
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Wall Street Journal says current higher-than-normal savings may cushion a downturn. Do they know what inflation does to cash?
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Only look at after-inflation and after-tax interest rates.
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Review of The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
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If you pound baby formula makers on quality and demand lower prices, you get shortages.
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Targeted or target-date funds are now hurting seniors. Well duh.
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Most real estate rehab LOSES money. Here are some that MAKE money.
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John T. Reed’s review of The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
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Putin can’t destroy our cities. The Democrats already did.
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Super book on baseball pitching
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Tucker Carlson and the “isolationism without limits is no vice” crowd
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Get multiple bids and go with the lowest qualified bidder. Don’t be distracted by smiles, etc.
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WSJ say real estate not aways in inflation hedge. Actually it pretty much is.
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I am not impressed with Argentine anti-inflation strategies.
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You want to get into Harvard college as a white person? Become a recruited athlete; otherwise, try State.
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The number of home sales is lower because of less inventory, but home prices are still climbing
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Artillery and tanks are not what Ukraine needs. Longer range guided weapons are.
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US Dollar is still strong against many foreign currencies, but it is being graded on the curve
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/hoas-trying-to-keep-corporate-rental-house-investors-out
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/small-modular-reactors-are-not-unproven
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Insted of nuke power plants backing up wind and solar, just skip the wind and solar
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Riots against free speech in Sweden
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/current-interest-rate-are-up-from-recent-but-still-a-bargain
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‘Soft landing?’ ‘Hard landing? We will be lucky to have ANY landing.
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CA DMV does not know what a CA drivers license looks like
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Big tank battle coming up. Russia is not the favorite
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James Mackintosh says get used to inflation. Tell that to the Venezuelans.
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Becoming a small-time landlord is not some sort of financial genius move. It is an ordinary job and a rather poorly paid one.
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Home prices went up 19.2% last year. Hope you did not miss out.
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Massive migration across our southern border is probably a good thing
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Biden’s proposed wealth tax is unconstitutional
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Increasing real estate value by adding kitchens
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60 Minutes defeatist piece about buying a home
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Ya know those babies being born to Ukrainians now, my college class had one of them?
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The Bond King says beware of bonds during inflation. Me too.
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Home equity does not count for “accredited investor” status
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WSJ says homeowners get richer when home values rise. No s***, Sherlock?
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Russia is poorer than they want you to know and this war is more than they can afford.
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Zelenskyy may agree to never NATO and let them have the easter provinces he stole
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Green energy has not been revealed to be an expensive fraud
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Facebook suspended me again. A little more of that and I will tell them to write their own content.
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Some disadvantages of gold go away if you keep it abroad.
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Globalization did not deter. But ht has punished, which may deter XI.
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Strategic bombing did not work in London or Germany. Probably not in Ukraine either.
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Russia’s belief that they are entitled to vassal buffer states.
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Attack on Ukraine power plant being overhyped? Maybe
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Americans dumb enough to own Russian stocks and bonds now want to sell, but to whom?
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We have to stop running away from nuclear threats or the bad guys get to take over the world without a shot
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Self-sanctioning
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Communist China has 6,000 citizens in Ukraine and told them not to admit to being Chinese
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Ways to let NATO attack Russian troops in Ukraine and Belarus
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Black history month is over—finally
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Canada raising its central bank interest rate to fight inflation
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Pelosi’s ecstasy over burn pits
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Japanese former Prime Minister Abe says US nukes should be in Japan
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Tucker Carlson opposes all military or sanction action against Ukraine or any other foreign nation
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UN General Assembly vote
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Jesse Watters has a very bad habit of exaggerating almost every ‘fact’ he discusses
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Ukraine war causing crypto currencies to rise in price
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Russia having trouble getting ocean-going tankers to ship their oil or banks to finance it
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Ukrainian invokes Spanish Civil War slogan
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We already have the taxation of unrealized capital gains that some Democrats could not get
Errata and supplemental material for the book An American Principal Residence is the Most Advantaged Investment On Earth: Maximize Yours!
Manage risk. Do not chase above average yield.
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Aggressive tax avoidance for real estate investors thoughts after 41 years of that book
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CA’s homestead bankruptcy exemption is now $600K, best in US not counting state with no dollar limit.
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How to ‘beat’ inflation
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Get rid of your bonds
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Late interceptor in National Championship should have slid, not scored.
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What should be in the “perfect portfolio?”
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Never agree to a balloon payment.
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John Madden denounced Youth tackle football for injuries. He was wrong.
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Madden and I disagreed on one aspect of clock management. My version is right.
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Armed Forces Bowl clock management
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In his effort to out FDR FDR, Biden may out-Hoover Hoover
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Chris Coumo was too much about being one of the cools kids and not enough of a grown-up
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Current high inflation in other countries and possibly taking advantage of it
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John T. Reed’s review of King Richard—the Venus and Serena Williams story
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Did an NFL player become a profitable house rehab flipper?
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Bring back kick returns
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Forget traditional retirement financial planning. It’s nuts.
Jason Zweig’s advice on which stocks to buy during double digit inflation is ill-advised for that and especially for higher inflation
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10/26/21 Wall Street Journal article saying Democrats will sink real estate is overly pessimistic
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America is going to wonder why no one warned them of hyperinflation.
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What it really takes to make a profit in real estate rehab
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The main profit in real estate may be the transaction costs. Avoid them.
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American Principal Residence... finally arrived today and is currently being shipped
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If you have an option to buy a house for less than it is worth, get a lwyer to make sure you exercise it correctly so you do not lose your equity.
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Jason Zweig says I bonds are great. I suspect the US government will renege on them if hyperinflation.
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/home-buyers-buy-a-house-if-all-you-do-is-whine-about-the-market-get-out-of-the-way-and-stop-wasting-people-s-time.
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What happens to employees in hyperinflation
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/sell-the-usd-buy-liquid-and-non-liquid-hard-assets-now
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Worthless James Mackintosh Wall Street Journal column on inflation
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/1967-west-point-recruiting-film
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The notion that you should own any bonds, let alone more as you age, is nuts in 2021.
Vaccinations need to be mandatory. The right not to be vaccinated is a right to infect the innocent with a deadly disease.
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If we get hyperinflation, you MUST leave the US. The alternative is starvation.
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The Dem spending frenzy will lead to disaster
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MLB balls are ridiculously, dangerously bouncy
Mass shootings kill tiny numbers of people; liberals do not care about preventing death, just about hating gun owners
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Yet another whispered warning of hyperinflation by the Wall Street Journal
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Proposed NFL OT rule that lets coin toss winner choose field position, not possession
Wall Street Journal is whispering ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater that IS on fire regarding inflation
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Dissecting a bullshit artist bitcoin pusher ‘analysis’
Ashli Babbit shot dead for daring to enter Speaker’s Pelosi’s office lobby
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Hot start-up delivery services are doomed, dumb business models
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The book of mine that is often bought as a Christmas gift
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Post Facebook refused to let anyone see about demonstrations that hurt innocents
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/will-the-radical-left-push-biden-around-after-he-wins
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/photo-of-my-author-work-desk
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/lessons-learned-buying-home-defense-magazines-today
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for home defense, your weapon and ammo must be totally ready at a moment’s notice.
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/letter-from-a-young-man-who-decided-not-to-go-to-west-point-and-my-response
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brief debate about my forthcoming book on investing only in principal residences
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/i-started-writing-a-new-book-on-your-principal-residence-as-your-only-real-estate
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/covid-19-has-revealed-that-education-needs-to-be-reconstructed-from-scratch
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/the-peaceful-protesters-are-accomplices-and-protectors-of-the-thugs
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/alberta-and-saskatchewan-should-join-the-u-s
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/buy-a-principal-residence-but-reject-the-condo-form-of-ownership
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https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/dumb-investors-buying-silver-because-it-went-up-in-price
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US politicians will NOT do the right thing to avoid hyperinflation
Wall Street Journal says ‘we are all Modern Monetary Theorists now.’ If so, we will be hyperinflation victims tomorrow.
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They’re rioting in Lebanon, because their foreign currency is illegal in Lebanon’s hyperinflation
Will ‘Trump get us out of this?’ WE may get us out of this, but government will not.
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Where to put money with a hyperinflation Sword of Damocles hanging over the US
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Trump is responding to covid 19 with full-on socialism and has turned America into a nation of welfare queens on the the theory that “if it’s not your fault, the federal government will pay for it’
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The Fed is now engaging in the most horrendous money ‘printing’ in world history
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Are the things we are being prevented from doing that great?
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Swallowed disinfectant and headline writers
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Investments where you can win but you can’t lose, or where your winnings are unlimited but your losses are extremely limited.
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Article about recent US Army ranger school
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You are on your own. The government is risking your economy.
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Stop worrying about yield and start worrying about principal safety with your investments
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Savings bonds and forever stamps in hyperinflation
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When you have foreign bank accounts, you must file IRS Form 8939 and Fin Cen Form 114 annually
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American are looking up at an avalanche waiting to happen and denying it is possible
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Why has the U.S. not yet had hyperinflation since the post 1980 debt run up has occurred?
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Using index funds to hedge against inflation
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Start worrying about the penalty for LATE withdrawal more than the penalty for early withdrawal
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Americans have lost their collective minds when it comes to federal spending
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Test everyone
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc examples
Is hydroxy chloroquine a placebo?
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Americans are screwing ‘the rich,’ corporations, and their own grandchildren for the world’s wrong assumption that there would be no such pandemic
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What if you do not get your US dollars out of the US before it’s illegal to do so?
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It can happen here
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Silver is really cheap today; gold, as usual, is overpriced
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The big picture of why the US government is going bankrupt
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Betting on deflation?—very bad idea
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Store shelves can go empty in the US—how to survive that
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Refuting a climate Marxist’s bogus climate change shtick
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LeBron may know about the ‘zone’ but he don’t know shit about hot hands
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Abortion is not a federal matter until the Constitutional is amended accordingly
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Good sleeping weather and other was to improve sleep
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Biden will get the nomination unless they figure out that he is demented
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In Back Bay Boston beware of earthquakes and low water table
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How is it Republicans’ fault that the Democrats ran off all the female and black candidates?
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Bernie lies about how poor America is
Bernie is too communist to be the nominee
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John T. Reed’s review of The Cost of Loyalty by Tim Bakken
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Dems damn Trump if he does and if he doesn’t on Covid 19
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How to fix the presidential debates
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Practical, sensible current uses for solar electricity
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Dems cannot denounce ALL their candidates, they need to boost one of them
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Fox News dishonest or misleading real estate-related ads
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Are Dems more in favor of reducing black-on-black murders or vote-getting leniency toward black criminals?
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Van Jones often speaks common sense to his looney left paymasters
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Why you should not use the Permanent Portfolio
Why I have not been blogging as much
Copyright by John T. Reed
Romney need to resign like Phil Gramm and rerun for that seat now that Utahans know who he really is February 6. 2020
Gift of succeeding for Christmas
Failure of PATs to use sweep-slide play at end of Dallas game 11/21/19
Elizabeth Warren is officious, not presidential material
Using a generator in a prolonged power outage.
Hillary turning into Nora Desmond
John T. Reed’s review of the book The Coveted Black and Gold [U.S. Army ranger tab]
The big D-Day screw-ups that have been covered up for 75-years
Is an honest media organization possible today?
The purely constitutional aspects of Roe v. Wade
Idiots calling Trump the biggest loser in business
Tis the season for Succeeding—Graduation Month, 2019
Pop Warner outlawing 3-point stances in lower levels of youth football
Lyft and Uber have no coherent business model or prospects
Get your kid to sue to stop deficit spending, or GMO, whatever. Name your own doomsday.
How did Amazon succeed with a “buying the business” strategy?
A modest proposal to get Amazon back into NYC
I did not know that: surprising facts about slaves in America.
Dems admit they plan to finance Green New Deal with hyperinflation
The ice on the Political Correctness River is thawing and breaking up
It’s negligent homicide at best; not a ‘communications problem,’ ‘hospice,’ or ‘family decision’
Dumb Warren idea; worse analysis of it in Wall Street Journal
Review of the documentary ‘They Shall Never Grow Old’
A couple of minor Super Bowl LIII back stories
God, motherhood, and apple pie—all hated by Democrats now
Who succeeds and fails in life is often determined by crucial moments when growing up
In 2018, we moved $1T closer to US government bankruptcy from runaway entitlement spending
We should do next to nothing about IS and most Middle Eastern guerilla or terrorism
How did we troops in a war zone feel about big shot visits?
Do a year-end review of your past year and make plans for the new year
Presidential primaries need to be revamped
We need to add an able-to-perform-the-duties test to continuing to be a federal judge
Draftees are generally better soldiers than volunteer enlisted men
Amazon’s CRaP CEO decides to cut the CRaP—finally, after 24 years CRaP-based growth
The “best cities in America” rankings are often nonsense
‘I wish I had this when I was young.’
Japan finally allows immigration, we should allow more
George H.W. Bush and Mitt Romney were absentee, not greats fathers
Best practices in stock market investing
Nuke the transgender dusky gopher frogs
Should Trump end government subsidies to GM?
Trying to make sense of the stock market today
‘Nothing safer than cash’ statement is wrong
Losing the House: Speaker Maxine Waters? Or focus on stuff where you don’t need the House.
Todd Gurley showed smarts, but no class, when he did not score against Packers
Timberland as an inflation hedge
Trump runs first trillion dollar deficit. You’d better prepare.
Trump runs first trillion dollar deficit. You’d better prepare.
NFL offenses are now more contrarian
How about the teamwork by the Trump-Grassley-Kavanaugh confirmation team!
Big-picture stuff on Ford all suspicious
Comment-by-comment analysis of Christine Blasey Ford statement
Review of the new book Autonomy about self-driving cars
How to improve your football team’s blocking
Army defeats Powerful Hawai’i offense by keeping them off the field in spite of weak pass defense
How where you go to college may affect your life after college
Big picture of collectible and precious metal coins
Avoid sales tax on coin acquisitions
The current stock market boom is based on fundamentals, not bubble PE ratios
Catholic Church overdue losing its habit of treating congregants like children or sheep
On a POW accepting an offer to be released ahead of his fellow POWs
What are these gold coins worth and what is the best way to sell them?
Converting rare silver US dollars to not-rare junk silver
Make sure you have up-to-date Schwab debit card, Capital One Visa, NEXUS, and passport
Comments on a Disney cruise in the Baltic Sea
Ways to minimize currency conversion costs
All baseball and softball players should bat left-handed, not right or switch
Bigger Pockets The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
Congress could use Congressional nullification to impeach a president who did not violate the law
Trump needs to stop trying to influence the Fed
Adventure travel like the Thai boys soccer team
One Latino socialist win in Queens does not a socialist spring make
Cleanse the 7th floor of the FBI headquarters
12 million people claim they will be murdered if they return to their country? Give me a break.
Enforce the border or step back to avoid the s***hole stampede
Mamas, don’t let your white male babies to grow up to apply to West Point
Thoughts on attending my 50th college reunion at West Point
Seeing the effect of finding the right medium for you at your 50th reunion
Prig, a uniquely odd accusation
Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb was a dud and how it relates to the EMP bomb
Special [prosecutors] for Comey, Richman, Clapper, etc.
I recommend the movie The Pink House about the Kelo v. New London case
Zuckerberg uses a negative pregnant to dodge a question about Facebook favoring liberals
The U.S, Army officer corps’ chronic trouble retaining good junior officers
email from a new Marine who wishes he had heeded my advice
Gold bugs buying more for a reason that means they should be selling
Sean Hannity Fox News 2/8/18 monologue
John T. Reed’s analysis of the use of dishonest arguments by prominent commentators
Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors 20th edition sent to the book manufacturer
New 20th edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors is out
Broward County deputies look untrained to me
64% of Venezuelans lost 25 pounds in 2017 because of hyperinflation
Impeach Trump before his Trade War takes over the world economy
Your tax preparer is likely playing you for a fool
Moving up to high society in America
Hauser’s Law trumps the Laffer Curve and unfunded liabilities trump GDP growth
How to eliminate politicians from setting policy
Investing in tens of thousands of dollars worth of nickels
John T. Reed’s comments on the Eagles SuperBowl 2/4/18
‘Your life is ruined—or maybe not.’
Trump deregulating like ‘Medlock’
Compare Trump to modern predecessors
Don’t fall for the silver commercials
Put the U.S. ambassador to Israel and all other Middle East countries in DC
The real news is the debt clock, not the tax plan or the sex scandals
The Navajo code talk in WW II was a childishly easy code to break
Failed seduction is not always illegal or improper
On the current price war in retailing
Trump delegating military decisions to the military: step in the right direction, but only a step
How can I moderate reader comments?
How to recognize BS stock market financial claims
John T. Reed’s pundit intellectual honesty ratings
More examples of intellectually-dishonest debate tactics from Dilbert
John T. Reed’s dysphemism list
Iowa lost because of clock management mistake in Penn State game
Time for military action in Korea
Food by Fedex is better and CHEAPER than visiting most local restaurants
Amazon is a bridge troll, a rent seeker
My football books have some great success stories from readers
How a summer of studying an upcoming math course can change your child’s life
Why politicians should not be allowed to touch health care
Is Pentagon Federal the Wells Fargo of credit unions?
An unexpected sighting in Scott Adams’ YouTube tour of his home.
The Left’s innuendo-apalooza referencing alleged Russian connections with the Trump campaign
Democrats call for special counsel to investigate Republicans is not news
Hillary’s excuses and blaming; Trump’s victory
‘Aggressive’ versus ‘conservative’ play calling in football
How LOW can you go when it comes to your costs of living?
Tucker Carlson’s interview with the Wharton MBA who trashed Harvard MBAs
On being the first Coach of Tennessee and Redskins player Kevin Simon
Leftists disguise themselves with lab coats
No one should learn how to switch hit
No one should ever bat right-handed
The MOAB dropped on Afghanistan
Trump appears to be using the Carrier Vinson as bait to get an excuse to attack North Korea
Taking out the Syrian Air Force cheap
On experiencing the new when you are old
Critique of the Trump attack on Syria
Trump attack inappropriate and too expensive but I like his style
Angry ‘I quit’ letter from fighter pilot to the Air Force
More statements promising higher inflation from the White House and the Fed
I do not think you need a foreign passport, but you do need foreign money.
Stop feeling bad about what the white men did to the Indians
How to have the milk you need to survive a hyperinflation bout
Adventures in buying and selling gold
Recent deposits to Canadian and Australian bank accounts
Fake hot water faucets at Ruth’s Chris
Palm trees in my neighborhood; snow on the mountain I live on
Trump is pulling a Clifford Irving
Journalists need to refrain from publishing legitimate secrets
Which gold/silver dealers are best?
Regarding new National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster
A biased Democrat newspaper produces an accurate article about Democrat disarray
I no longer recommend Swedish currency
Why no Disneyland in Latin America or Africa?
Youth flag football has more injuries than youth tackle
Ninth Circuit ‘judicial nullification’ is an impeachable offense
I just put more money in Canada; you probably should, too
Bragging about ‘treasure troves’ of intelligence is appalling stupidity
The Ninth Circuit was right about ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance
Wall Street Journal turning blatantly anti-Trump
Selected quotes from Doomed to Succeed, the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama
2017 NCAA and NFL championships clock-management mistakes
Alabama lost because of not being in a slow-down
Journal extolls run-pass option play
The Medlock Doctrine: quick victory with minimal casualties and cost
Keep your eyes on the ball in a Hail Mary
Did Army miss out on winning 12 games because of easily-fixed coach mistakes?
On UN Security Council Resolution 2334
I recommend The Perfect Pass book by S.C. Gwynne
Boring football plays that should be eliminated
December 2016 Real Estate Investor’s Monthly table of contents
Phillip Rivers spikitis may have caused loss
The Weekly Standard Post-election Cruise
Hollywood stars for president from now on
Ravens deliberate mass holding penalty against Bengals
88% of blacks voting for the anti-school choice party
If Trump keeps his trade-war promise, nothing else will matter
The 2016 Presidential election
The way to real change is neither demonstrations nor the politician election ballot box
We do NOT need to accept the results of the election and we can do that legally
My brother-in-law’s triplex now being marketed in Boston area
Reader comments on The Unelected President novel
This is the adequate change we need in government
Make the liberals collect the progressive income tax face-to-face from ‘the rich’
Wall Street Journal gets in wrong on Trump tax laws
The election is not just about Hillary’s Supreme Court nominees
Designated Survivor versus The Unelected President
Fame requires that you be one-dimensional
Hillary thinks if you repeat the same lies enough times, they will be believed
Comments on the ‘Designated Survivor’ trailer
The Democrat business model: make lots of people feel poor and downtrodden and keep them there
A 65-day border shutdown makes Mexico pay for the Wall whether they admit it or not
Trump releasing his tax returns
Trump releasing his tax returns
Hillary’s mistakes all favor her, i.e., they are not mistakes
Vaccinations are matters of life and death, not philosophy or arcane legalism
CA court decision upholding school vaccination requirement
You can now order my new novel, The Unelected President
If Italy is a G-8 country, why did a moderate earthquake kill so many?
Discussion about the mediocre performance of the U.S Olympic team when viewed on a per-capita basis
Why don’t Republican presidents do what “President Medlock” does?
Public figures get a lot of mail, some of it really nice
Sowell’s column that black lives only matter when they fail, not when they succeed
Trump/Hillary strengths and weaknesses
Trump is doing terribly in the presidential race, your denials notwithstanding
Stopping President Hillary from using the Supreme Court to Alinsky-ize America
FBI and Justice ‘repeal’ the law against gross negligence in handling of secrets
Venezuelan food riots are what you get when you combine hyperinflation and price controls
Dodging the colon-cancer bullet
Andrew Roberts ‘Back of the Queue’ op-ed
TransferWise for moving money abroad
Pulse Club shooting in Orlando
A list of the Clintons’ felonies
The only secret law Hillary cares about is the Freedom of Information Act
Too many overuse injuries among youth baseball pitchers
Trump was right to say the 2008 real estate crash would be a good thing for real estat investors
Grammar is not mandatory, it’s positioning
George Schulz straightens me out
Three SEALs recently dying in or after flunking out
Defaulting on the national debt makes a surprising amount of sense
Hillary’s pan-inoffensiveness offends me, and millions of others
Trump’s actions have never been crazy; his words, often
How did the Clintons make $45 million from ‘public service’ salaries of $174,000 and $203,700?
How the presidential-selection process should be changed
How would ‘President Medlock’ handle Russians buzzing US ships?
Why not Panama as an asset haven?
WSJ article is the Moneyball of basketball
SEAL hype now even attacked by SEALs
‘The dogs are never wrong’ or how to avoid an avoidable cause of death
Media still not quite getting the whole story of Trump Unviersity
Protect yourself from both inflation and deflation
Trump University is worse than reported
The ‘Unelected President Michael Medlock’ on deporting illegals
It’s time to recognize what so-called privacy rights really are
The disappearance of John N. Beck II
There appear to be two Donald Trumps
Bill or Kwame? Management lessons learned from The Apprentice
Forensic Files is educational TV that might enhance your safety
Hillary’s secret email argument is total bull!
‘Little Old Me-ism’ and external validation seekers
Comments on the 2016 presidential campaign
Always go for the win with a 2-point conversion when possible at the end of regulation
The various Hillary legal scenarios
Quit rates and number of qualified applicants tell who is over- or underpaid
comments on the movie 13 Hours
Make sure you have a current, unexpired U.S. passport
Did the Packers almost throw the 12/20/15 Oakland game away by violating my clock management rules?
New Niners coach Chip Kelly may be contrarian and warp speed but there’s more to coaching a team
Cheating on youth sports draft night
So-called ‘sellers’ markets’ are really buyers’ markets
Why all baseball players should bat left-handed
Are Trump and Christie bullies?
Comments on the movie The Big Short
Profiling should not be illegal
Comments on the New York Times gun-control editorial
On trying to hurt the feelings of public figures
No bad information on Syrian refugees is not an acceptable standard
The proper U.S. government response to IS attacks in France and elsewhere
‘West Point, oh yeah. I could have gone there.’
West Point ain’t no scholarship
Rubio is all ambition and no principles
Whether Ben Carson falsely claimed that he was offered a scholarship to West Point
Two points Trump understands but few others do
Rubio’s resume is Obama circa 2008—LITE
I am not quite who I was told I was—Ancestry.DNA.com
Gates and Judge Napolitano making hard-hitting statements
Hillary may cackle her way to defeat—or even jail
Hillary is immune from prosecution
The Medlock Doctrine on use of military force
Even when he occasionally gets it right, Obama screws it up
Covering up concussions at West Point
Terrorism is a publicity stunt
Ben Carson says Darwin was ‘encouraged’ by [Satan]
List of all articles and blogs
The West Point pillow fight that resulted in serious injuries
The three Americans who subdued the terrorist on the French Train
Using the Army’s Ranger School as yet another exercise in political correctness
Crossing the Yellow River in Army Ranger School
Life as seen through four portrait photos taken over a span of 52 years
Checklists for getting a vehicle service or washed
We may be approaching the time to buy junk silver
Currency conversions in Europe 2015
Review of Gary Danko restaurant in San Francisco (number one rated in The City)
Trump comments about McCain being captured
China’s financial troubles are a bigger story than Greece’s
How to find my old Word Press articles
Told you so. Greece is giving you a much-needed, real-time lesson in what could happen here.
Bill O’Reilly’s Lone Ranger TV show
JP Morgan Chase ban on cash in safe deposit boxes
Do NOT try to conceal legal transactions above $10,000 to avoid disclosure. It’s a felony.
Memorial Day and the cheapening of the word ‘hero’
Filling out the FinCEN Form 114 to report your foreign financial acounts in 2015
Charles Murray’s book By the People
Harvard discriminates against the Tiger Moms’ children
San Francisco on the way to becoming majority white
Cruz was born in Canada; may not be eligible to be U.S. president
Choose Congress from the phone book
What you think about nuclear war is mostly wrong
Comments on the movie American Sniper
Is bitcoin ready for prime time?
Comments on Scott Beauchamp’s ‘Abolish West Point’ article in the Washington Post
John T. Reed’s comments on the book Killing Patton
Will the Chinese yuan become the world’s reserve currency?
ECB, CAD, JPY all trying to inflate their currencies; DKK unpegging from EUR
Fire Packers Coach McCarthy for incompetetent clock management in NFC championip game
Swiss franc allowed to trade at market exchange rates
James Fallows’ Atlantic article ‘The Tragedy of the American Military’
Radical Islam is more Nazism, than religion
Should you yell at players or be a football whisperer to teach and motivate players?
Another huge advantage of being American: speaking English
John T. Reed comments on The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier
Citizenship in Singapore, Brazil, Israel, Belgium
Innovation, the seven pillars of prosperity, geography, and demography
Our new Bank of Montreal, Canada banker
When one of my football coach book readers loses a game
Comments on the movie When the Game Stands Tall
Comments on attending the first Niners football game at Levi’s Stadium
The 2014 verison of my head tax proposal
My Unelected President’s bomber jacket name badge
Coast Starlight Amtrak trip to my NEXUS interview in Vancouver, Canada
The meaning of the Fourth of July to me
AMEX is no longer a BMO biller (capital-control-avoidance issue)
How to complain, at least initially
Overly generous pay and benefits for Army lifers
My Facebook posts on Bowe Bergdahl
My Facebook posts on Shinseki and the VA
Thoughts on attending my 50th high school reunion
Living La Vida 90-Dia Turista to escape USD hyperinflation
John T. Reed articles and posts about opening and using Australian bank accounts
Reader’s comments on my military web articles generally
Baseball defensive coordinators
Checklist for taking refuge from USD hyperinflation outside the U.S.
John T. Reed’s articles about opening and using Canadian bank accounts
Another reader experience opening a bank account in Canada as I recommend
Getting a NEXUS interview appointment
If Crimea has to go back to Russia, doesn’t South Sakhalin Island have to go back to Japan?
Reader’s report on a month-long stay in high-inflation Argentina
College as a spouse-hunting ground
The new, favorite inspirational songs of those who play well with others
Marines having wet dreams about being able to roll their sleeves up
Comments on the book What You’re Really Meant To Do
Another reader experience going to Canada to open bank accounts
The new A11FL pro football league
More renouncing U.S. citizenship
Thoughts on a new flag for New Zealand
WSJ headline: ‘Military Makes Ethics a Priority’—Yeah, right
What life is really like on U.S. nuclear submarines
How to stay in the U.S. and still avoid many onerous regulations and taxes
Comments on the Lone Survivor movie
Buy nickels while you still can
Comments on the new TV docuseries Friday Night Tykes
West Point recruiting film from when I was a cadet surfaces on YouTube—with me in it
My comments about the BCS title game from Facebook with some additions
Steve Forbes on the chances of hyperinflation
Using a pedometer to get 10,000 steps a day
Niners clock-management screw-up in final game of the regular season
The WASPs were a better ruling class than today’s so-called ‘meritocracy’
Does 3rd quarter GDP growth of 4.1% mean we’re out of the woods?
Obama has lost a lot more than his mojo
On cutting COLAs for military retirees under age 62
The World War II Navajo code was extremely easy to break; notwithstanding the Japanese failing to
Argentinian police striking because of high inflation—leading to riots and looting
The TV documentary Marching On: 1963 Army-Navy
Comments on Wessel article ‘Why Dollar Is King Despite U.S. Woes’
The coming attempt to grab your net worth
World Bank ‘control of corruption’ rankings
Review of the documentary Into Harm’s Way, the Story of the West Point Class of 1967
A reader’s account of his marathon visits to all my foreign banks and some others in one trip
Monitoring my New Zealand bank accounts and making a change
Changes to contact info on my recommended Australia and Canadian bankers
Understanding your personality type—INTJ as an example
Democrats doubling down on Obamacare is probably suicidal
One way in which 21st century hyperinflation will be different
USAA ‘subscriber account’ successfully closed
Hazing in football and other organizations
John T. Reed comments on Wall Street Journal article on mass killings
Review of the Pirate Alley book
Argentina’s dolar blue market for USD
The Chase letter about international wire transfers and transactions beyond $50,000 per month
Obama is accelerating toward the hyperinflation cliff
The never-ending whining and demands of blacks and American Indians
Do Americans really love freedom?
I do not wish my life were more like any of the Forbes 400
‘Best by’ dates are not food went bad dates; it’s probably still good
Taking our 3-year old granddaughter to Disneyland
Captain Swenson finally gets his Medal of Honor
The clock mess at the end of the ASU-WI game on 9/14/13
NFL Week 1 contrarianism and football clock management mistake
Sam Zell on real estate investment now in light of ‘Quantitative Easing’
Venezuelan capital controls force people there to buy real estate
Paying your routine bills out of a USD account in Canada
Comments on the book The Collectors: Canadian Customs history
Comments on the 1956-7 West Point TV series now available ot DVD
Comments on Derek Lundy’s book Borderlands about the Canadian border
Predicting the US-Canadian border situation during US hyperinflation
U.S. military no longer knows how to wear a hat
Will US-Canada border towns be adequate refuges during US hyperinflation?
Living cheap, for extended periods, in an RV
My participation in Freedomfest 2013 July 10th to 13th, 2013
Is non-U.S. real estate a wise investment?
It’s better to be a year early than a minute late—in some situations, not all
SEC proposes restricting your ability to withdraw your money from money-market funds
Rebalance your foreign currency and other asset accounts when values change
Getting the ability to charge your customers in foreign currencies before the ’flation hits the fan
Tranzfers.com and International Man recommendations on digital internationalization
The flexibility of having minimal possessions
The Reed Theory Hyperinflation-Protection Fund
Comments on AUD, CAD, NZD, and Bitcoin from Facebook
How to keep your foreign money private and avoid reporting-error risk
After 10,560 hours of leadership training, P&G CEO from West Point is fired
The Charles Schwab Bank ATM card and foreign currency withdrawals—from Facebook
Goverrment is too vast for the president to know what’s going on—from Facebook
Cash management in anticipation of U.S. capital controls
Example of hedged protective transfer of money abroad
Can you safely hedge USD inflation risk with foreign currency in a IRA?
Fad of weakening their own currencies spreading among central bankers
Should you move routine-bill-paying USD abroad and pay bills out of USD accounts there?
The falling deficit, debt ceiling, and the ‘Pay China First Act’
Converting USD annuities into lump sums now
USD hyperinflation in countries where the USD is now the official or quasi-official currency
Currency conversion in Australia and New Zealand
Global Online Entry System for expedited air travel
Democrats are repealing Obamacare brick by brick
Collection of my Facebook posts from my trip to Australia and New Zealand
West Point’s top four grads were all born in the 1800s. What has the place done for America lately?
I’m back in business after being forced off the air by Yahoo Web host sfotware rules changes.
The benefits gold bugs ascribe to gold are more true of the U.S. nickel
The book A Nation of Deadbeats by Scott Reynolds Nelson
The mounting evidence that we have become a doomed nation of takers
The ‘Food Bomb,’ another reason to store food
West Point Combating Terrorism Center denounces ‘far right’ in the U.S.
The Schengen Area as a refuge from U.S. hyperinflation
Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickson White
Are U.S. foreign exchange trading accounts an adequate way to hedge against U.S. dollar inflation
Costs of living my the countries whose currencies I recommend
Racism in today’s U.S. military
I am going to Australia and New Zealand
Semi-automatic guns and magazines
Am I a kook for warning against hyperinflation?
Well, that was interesting —hearing from some hyperinflation deniers
More evidence that Warren Buffet is an amateur demagogue and a hypocrite on taxes
The American people are receiving the economics education they did not get in school via a 2x4
Please sign up as a ‘friend’ at one or both of my Facebook pages if you have not already done so
Australian and Canadian dollars now certified as reserve currencies by the IMF
Should you worry about the ‘fiscal cliff?’
Petraeus was a mediocre general
Ralph Peters’ column on Petraeus’s hypocrisy
How to detect counterfeit currency in hyperinflation
Petraeus resign CIA post because of extra-marital affair
Implementation of Obamacare means the end of the private sector of the health-care industry
Advantages of living near international borders within the U.S. in the event of hyperinflation
When do you flee the U.S.? Where do you go?
Hurricane Sandy shows the importance of having a Plan B
The mirror image of ‘The Greatest Trade Ever’
Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau threatens us with black riots if we vote for Romney
The final pitch of the 2012 World Series
Encouraging poll numbers are not enough
Way to go Pablo Sandoval, but you did NOT match Reggie Jackson
Article about 30- to 90-day stays abroad
Good column on debt by David Wessel—as far as it goes
Will Romney lose the debate by pressing?
Consequences of a second Obama term
Quit farting around on food storage. It’s only a couple of thou. Just do it.
Three of the top five economic entities are simultaneously ‘printing’ too much money
Leaving the country when you own immobile hard assets in the U.S.
Quit obsessing about the presidential election polls
Romney has money in Australia and Canada
Fasten your seat belts. The Euro Zone says it will ‘print’ euros to save its deadbeat members
Ignore all the political discussions on your TV, Internet, and radio. They are just distractions.
Would the U.S. going back onto a gold standard make gold worth $10,000 an ounce?
Hyperinflation advice for young adults
Wall Street Journal’s gold standard article
Romney fired Bernanke; will Bernanke now ‘campaign’ for Obama?
For Chrisake, if you are an American and do not have a current U.S. passport, get one!
Gary North’s ‘Hyperinflation is not inevitable’ article is wrong
Australia’s banks now more valuable than Europe’s Atlantic article
Paul Ryan draws power from the ‘Third Rail of American Politics’
Facebook, Groupon, and Amazon still do not have business models that make sense
‘Use a dollar; go to prison:’ Zambia’s new capital controls
The day the hyperinflation dies
Why do people swear that bad things are good?
Preview of your future in Iran
When do you flee the U.S.? Where do you go?
Hyperinflation insights from Stefan Zweig’s autobiography
Surprising lessons learned from 1931 hyperinflation book
U.K., EZ, U.S. all ‘printing’ too much money
Stephanie Pomboy’s interview about the End of Fiat Money
Review of How to Retire Overseas
Amazon competes with its own merchants
New rules for criticizing my currency recommendations
Told you so on Obamacare back in May 2011
Swiss francs in a safe-deposit box
More hyperinflation red lights (Updated 10/8/12)
My Australian bank says okay to identify them
Reader experience with Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand banks
A Canadian bank that may not require you to come in person to open an account
Why are US bond yields so low in the face of federal government going off a cliff?
Cost of cross-border Canada-US travel
David Walker’s Comeback America Initiative
Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin
A reader provides another Canadian banker contact
Amazon, Facebook, and Groupon revisited
Get your money out of the U.S. the way the Europeans are getting their money out of Greece
The Sierra Club was in favor of natural gas before they were against it
Observations of a U.S. businessmen from recent travels to hyperinflated countries
Questions from border officials when crossing international borders
Romney owns Australian and Canadian dollar-denominated assets
What passport(s) should U.S. citizens renounce or seek?
Fortune’s 5/12 slobbering love affair with young vets 2.0
I am going to avoid the euro and any currency associated with it
The Return of the Drachma: Greece’s demonstration of our future
You do not have to report foreign currency in a foreign safe deposit box to IRS
Stocking up on milk as hyperinflation preparation
HSBC seems the ideal foreign currency bank—except for one little problem
I’m trying to find the best way to own Swiss francs
Review of Mark Steyn’s book After America
Elections in France and Greece offer a view of our future
Get Google Alerts on foreign currencies in which you invest
Her husband is hooked on John T. Reed’s ‘opinions’ on hyperinflation but her gut is screaming NO
Hyperinflation is more complex than mere higher prices
Is lying, cheating, and stealing a proper hyperinflation plan?
How Switzerland does it and why we should do the same
Austerity versus growth is a false choice
Euro politicians’ choices: Print, cut, or resign
You want a united America? Move government power to the local level.
Astonishment at video of Army Spring fooball game at Fort Benning
To see our future, look at the modern history of Argentina
Response to Ezra Klein’s ‘deficit goes away on its own’ column
I was a stay-at-home dad. It was not hard work.
What having foreign creditors meant to Britain in 1956
You living here while your cash is over there
No mention of gold in the books or movie about hyperinflation
Pending death of the two major parties in Greece
George Zimmerman versus Trayvon Martin
Okay, I saw the Act of Valor SEAL movie
Anna Eisenmenger should have followed her banker’s advice
Comments on the book Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar
What’s really important now is rarely on TV
Red lights that are telling you U.S. dollar hyperinflation is coming (updated frequently)
Rush Limbaugh and Sandra “pay for my birth control” Fluke
No representation without taxation
Government bonds now riskier than corporate bonds
Review of It Can’t Happen Here
Game-winning touchdown play in the Super Bowl—straight out of my book
Practical and legal problems with owning foreign currency as a hedge against U.S. dollar inflation
Comments on the Red Tails movie
Countries with the most financial freedom—U.S. ain’t in the top ten
A financial Berlin Wall is going up and you are on the wrong side of it
It’s not ‘class’ warfare. It’s just plain old envy.
2012 NFC Championship game coaching lessons learned
Gingrich attack on CNN for asking about open-marriage allegation
How to Make Romney Pay the Same Tax As You
Confiscating all the income of the rich revisited
Gingrich and Perry align with Axelrod to stop Romney
No one will nickel and dime you anymore
What’s wrong with the defense cuts/strategy changes
Good intentions substitute for Constitutional authority
Coming soon to a theater near you; European troubles
Separation of AF officers just before retirement
ESPN documentary: the Marinovich Project
Review of the movie Margin Call
Good intentions and occasional progress not enough
Americans are Marxists, but won’t admit it
Copy the Confederate Constitution: 1 subject per law
Take a look at Canadian and Australian currencies
Stop the presses—Herman Cain conjugated a verb
Cruz’s error in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series
As Cain says, we’re focusing on the wrong problem
Herman Cain’s experience and 9-9-9 plan
Free trade in 2011: China, Korea, Colombia, and Panama
My NFL 2-minute warning timeout rule as wrong
Comments on Army defeat of Tulane 10/1/11
U.S. military is pension/health program with occasional war
Comments on Army upset of Northwestern 9/17/11
The Right to Earn a Living by Timothy Sandefur
Brave Army Captain so far denied medal; criticized the brass
Amazon’s California sales tax fight and possible deal
Comparing 1983 and 2011 on entitlement reform
Did Bill Belichick copy my idea on NFL P.A.T.s?
Comments on all my articles disappeared
Hurricane Irene and the Boy who Cried Wolf
Jittery markets may signifiy tipping point near
Warren Buffet’s latest popularity stunt
Army Lt. Ehren Watada objecting to Iraq
God bless referendums. We need them at the national level
America is ordering from the left side of the menu
Disney versus SEALs trademark fight
HBO’s super ‘Too Big to Fail’ movie
More details on bin Laden killing
Constitutionality of Obamacare easy—call it a tax
Note: the headline news articles were previously all listed at www.johntreed.com/headline-articles.html. That page bombed and I am having to re-create it which will take time. In the meantime, here is a Wayback Machine version that was created in June 2011. It’s pretty clunky and slow and leaves out the June 2011 to December 2011 articles. The articles are still up on the web site. You can find them in your own browser history or by using the search box within my web site to find them based on key words.
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