The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
by Sean Dempsey | 06/02/24 When I try to make sense of currency in the digital age, I start from a conviction that feels almost embarrassingly old-fashioned: money cannot survive without hard grounding; it must not subsist as mere style. It can be abstract, electronic, contractual, or symbolic, but it cannot be only mood. Philosophers […]
The biggest systemic risk to markets right now. Will it be the pin to pop the “everything bubble?” The yen carry trade has long been the financial world’s favorite magic trick: borrow yen at 0%, sell it for dollars, then plow the proceeds into whatever shiny thing is booming that month: U.S. tech stocks, crypto, […]
By Sean Dempsey Date: June 03, 2025 If it seems too good to be true, it probably is… That phrase should be stamped in 100-point bold on the front door of Mid South Turnkey Homes, located at 5865 Ridgeway Center Parkway, Suite 300 Memphis TN 38120. Because what my wife and I endured with this […]
By Sean Dempsey, 04/15/25 The silver mining sector stands at the threshold of a potentially historic rally, driven by a rare confluence of macroeconomic imbalances, collapsing input costs, and structural mispricing. As of April 2025, the silver-to-gold ratio sits just under 100:1, a level that, while not unprecedented, remains among the most extreme in modern […]
To pick up from Warp Whistle 11 of “The Investor’s Warp Whistles,” what follows are specific examples of administrative bloat as well as lessons from what a college looks like today. Administrative Bloat These excessive expenditures serve to enhance the university’s brand or to attract prospective students—but they do nothing to improve the quality of […]
By Sean Dempsey01/26/24 Someone recently asked me how I attained the properties in my real estate portfolio. And to be honest I had to stop and think for a moment. Time has a monotonous way of making someone simply put one foot ahead of the other and then the next so that the entire journey […]
The last twelve months have been an interesting time for investing. So as the year draws to a close, I thought it would be fun and enlightening to outline and report on my various prospects, successes, and failures embarked in 2023 for anyone interested to observe. I will “open the kimono,” so to speak, to […]
Foreword Nothing in this article is unique. I am heavily borrowing (with full credit where it is most due) from the gurus whom have most influenced my life from a financial standpoint. To download this article as a PDF – click here. Dave Ramsey—who doles out solid financial advice “your grandmother would give you”—posits a […]