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Jeff Opdyke’s Biography

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  • Former Wall Street Journal personal finance and investments writer
  • Weekly columnist for the Sunday Journal's first-person Love & Money column, syndicated in more than 100 newspapers internationally.
  • Former executive editor for Sovereign Society, traveling to world to write about global investing, economics and political issues.
  • Author of 10 books on personal finance, family finance, and global investing. Most recent book: Replay: Your Second Chance to Invest in the American Dream
  • Currently Edi…

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The 2026 Mid-Terms and the End of America (and the Dollar) as We Know It.

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By Jeff Opdyke
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Death constantly stalks empires. From the day an empire arises, death is already plotting a terminal goal. A single, fatal blow is never the plan, of course. Death bides its time, much like a slowly feasting cancer, destroying a little of the host here, a little of the host there. Why rush the inevitable? Fate is what it is, whether that arrives now… or later. Such has been the case with every empire history has known. All collapsed, though none in a blink.
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2026: The Year of Copper

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By Jeff Opdyke
| Medium
The promise of big money makes even the ugliest asset look positively radiant. And 2026 is looking absolutely incandescent for copper. Over the years, I’ve spent a great many words ranting on and on about gold and why anyone who wants to be prepared for the financial reset to come should have a few boatloads of gold squirreled away somewhere.
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How to Prepare as China and the BRICS Take the Next Step Toward Dollar Destruction…

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By Jeff Opdyke
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More news in the ongoing diminution of the dollar… From the BRICS bloc comes indications that the new hard currency those nations are seeking to build (I warned this was in the works back in 2012) is taking on a more definitive form: Backed 40% by gold. The other 60% is a basket of currencies from countries inside the bloc.
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