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A Thanksgiving Book Report... And The Week Ahead

A Thanksgiving Book Report... And The Week Ahead

I want to take a week to explain how the financial system works...

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Garrett Baldwin
Nov 24, 2024
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Dear Fellow Expat:

I’ll be heading to Florida tomorrow.

For the most part - I’m out for the week.

I’ll be providing lots of insight for Republic Risk and Insider Readers.

I never take vacations… I once wrote a 3,000 cover story during my Honeymoon.

My wife has never forgiven that publisher.

But ahead of this travel, I want to do something special.

This will be very different from traditional postcards.

We’re going back to our roots of academia. Not to graduate school…

Not to college.

We are back to middle school-level book reports.

This week, we will dissect Michael Howell's book Capital Wars.

I’ve wanted to do this for a while…

His work has been very critical to my studies in recent years. But here’s the thing.

It’s incredibly complex as a topic. Please read his book and his blog.

But I also want you to be able to understand it. So…

Let’s dive into the book chapter by chapter… and break it down at a ninth-grade level, hopefully.

This might only be for some, but… it explains how the financia…

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