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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] 

Trump has an opportunity to beat Reagan; system change in North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, China, and maybe Russia, without firing a shot 

What is really change-your-life important, is rarely covered in the media, and what they do cover is chose solely for its ability to get ratings. 

The big D-Day screw-ups that have been covered up for 75-years

Is an honest media organization possible today? 

Australia election the latest evidence that there are a lot more ‘deplorables’ in the world than the Left think 

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 

Almost all of the news is NOT about the most important topic in America: The national debt growing faster than GDP. 

Are the elite colleges and universities worth the enormous effort and cost it takes to get admitted and graduate?

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 

Dem presidential candidates are here from the government and they are going to help us with housing shortages. 

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 

Hyperinflation is inevitable in the U.S. because of our runaway national debt; Medicare and college for All make it more inevitable and more imminent 

God, motherhood, and apple pie—all hated by Democrats now 

A common investment where you win in inflation but only lose a relatively small amount in the event of deflation

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 

Mattis is overrated by a lot 

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 

Why you should buy one of my coaching books as a gift for a football or baseball player or parent of a player 

‘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 

Broad misdirection plays 

Stopping the QB draw play 

The Unelected President ‘Mike Medlock’s’ reaction to being ordered by a federal judge to reinstate Jim Acosta’s White House Press Pass. 

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 

Army Buffalo football game

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 

Argument about whether you are required to disclose foreign currency you hold in the form of cash to FINCEN 

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 

U. of Chicago no longer requiring SAT or ACT; is that to avoid evidence that they are discriminating against whites and Asians and in favor of blacks and Latinos? 

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. 

Ready for my 50th reunion 

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 

Video about my new book Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors, 20th edition 
 
Why you don’t melt junk silver or pennies or nickels 

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 

I had a stroke 

‘Why America Is Going Broke’ 

John T. Reed response to a CA editorial urging banning of youth tackle football because of concussion danger 

Your tax preparer is likely playing you for a fool 

It may already be too late to head off U.S. government bankruptcy, but it is not too late to prepare yourself. 

Moving up to high society in America 

Trump’s military parade 

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 

First visit to Latin America 

‘Your life is ruined—or maybe not.’ 

What metric do you use to determine your financial health? Income? Passive income? Assets? Debt? Net worth? Rental properties? Something else? 

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 

John T. Reed on bitcoin 

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? 

There is no yardline where you are better off moving back from the goal line before attempting a field goal kick from the hash 

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 

‘Religious’ financial assets 

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

Graduation gift time

‘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.

The REAL asymmetrical warfare

Stop feeling bad about what the white men did to the Indians

Trump’s looming trade war

Kicking the can down the road again. Are you prepared for the consequences?
Precious metal coin values are in the Wall Street Journal daily 

The Truth About Sweden

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

Foreign bank account deadline changed from June 30 to Aprirl 15, with extension to October now available

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

Finding buried junk silver

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

Trump tax return bumbling

The election is not just about Hillary’s Supreme Court nominees

Both the Arkansas and Texas A&M head coaches think it’s harder to kick a field goal from the five than from the ten. Idiots!

Designated Survivor versus The Unelected President

Fame requires that you be one-dimensional

Raiders-Saints 9/11/16

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

Global warming

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

Be smart and save on shipping

Trump is doing terribly in the presidential race, your denials notwithstanding

Learn from the Venezuelans

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

My thoughts on the Brexit

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

Trump derangement syndrome

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

31 Things Your Senior Rater Would Like You to Know That He Probably Won’t Tell You By LTC Dominick Edwards

How would ‘President Medlock’ handle Russians buzzing US ships?

Amending your FBAR Form 114

Why not Panama as an asset haven?

Obama sends B-52s to Iraq

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

How fixer-uppers REALLY work

Media still not quite getting the whole story of Trump Unviersity

The pitcher-cover-first play

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

Avoid crowds

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

Trump is Herbert Hoover redux

Rubio is all ambition and no principles

Whether Ben Carson falsely claimed that he was offered a scholarship to West Point

The new Army Chief of Staff lied about Russia’s ability to destroy the U.S.

Two points Trump understands but few others do

Jeb may be the best candidate

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

Is criticizing the violently killed blaming the victim, or using a cautionary tale as a teaching moment?

Why care about Syria?

Terrorism is a publicity stunt

Ben Carson says Darwin was ‘encouraged’ by [Satan]

List of all articles and blogs

I endorse Carson

The West Point pillow fight that resulted in serious injuries

Looking at our recent wars with 20-20 hindsight and a willingness to reject the way it was always done

Anchor babies

The three Americans who subdued the terrorist on the French Train

Trump the businessman

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

John T. Reed comments on the books The Silencing by Kirsten Powers and By the People by Charles Murray

Any Latin American criminal who stays in Latin America is an idiot; America offers an irrestible deal to them

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

Uruguay residence permit

Zweig calls gold a ‘pet rock’

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.

Stop freaking out about IS

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

The problem isn’t racism against blacks. It’s ‘black values’ since the ‘black power’ movement in the 1960s.

Baltimore parents and cops

Baltimore riots

San Francisco on the way to becoming majority white

Digital currency grown-ups

How to convert your anunities, which are the worst possible asset during hyperinflaion, into leveraged hard assets, which are the best

Charges against Bergdahl

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

The arithmetic of finding an opposite-gender spouse as analyzed by the Wall Street Journal and John T. Reed

Boots on the ground

2015 Super Bowl comments

Free the A-10 Warthog!

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

Football playoffs comments

James Fallows’ Atlantic article ‘The Tragedy of the American Military’

Radical Islam is more Nazism, than religion

So arm the cartoonists

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

Freedom Fest 2014

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

Finally, after 50 years, I see the West Point recruiting film that got me into trouble before I arrived there

Overly generous pay and benefits for Army lifers

Hyperinflation and smuggling

My Facebook posts on Bowe Bergdahl

My Facebook posts on Shinseki and the VA

Thoughts on attending my 50th high school reunion

Even though it was not covered by anyone other than Fox News, the BLM-Nevada rancher confrontation and surrender by the federal government, could turn out to be a watershed moment in U.S. history

Living La Vida 90-Dia Turista to escape USD hyperinflation

John T. Reed articles and posts about opening and using Australian bank accounts

These days, West Point seems more interested in defeating Princeton in college rankings than the Taliban in the war on terror

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

Young vets have higher unemployment rates—giving lie to all the recruiters who said your military training and experience would be valued by civilian employers

You now can get the Medal of Honor for being a “minority” whose votes Obama wants to turn out in an election year

Getting a NEXUS interview appointment

If Crimea has to go back to Russia, doesn’t South Sakhalin Island have to go back to Japan?

The Battle of Gettysburg

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

Stop calling it bitcoin

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’

More problems with bitcoins

Does 3rd quarter GDP growth of 4.1% mean we’re out of the woods?

Democrats don’t know it but their policies are replacing workers with robots and other labor-savings machines

Obama has lost a lot more than his mojo

On cutting COLAs for military retirees under age 62

2013 Army-Navy Game

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

Amazon’s delivery drone

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

Captain Phillips movie

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

Defunding Obamacare

‘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

Observations on Canada 2013

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

Women in the U.S. military

The Inter-Agency Senior Pass

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

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dempsey’s proposal to have 360-degree evaluations of officers integrity—Yeah right

Democrats are repealing Obamacare brick by brick

Cyprus insured deposits scare

Collection of my Facebook posts from my trip to Australia and New Zealand

Turbotax screws up your Form TD F 90-22.1 and could get you fined $10,000—do NOT use Turbotax’s version

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

Zero Dark Thirty

The mounting evidence that we have become a doomed nation of takers

Why hasn’t inflation hit yet?

The ‘Food Bomb,’ another reason to store food

West Point Combating Terrorism Center denounces ‘far right’ in the U.S.

ANZ in Australia and New Zealand required one reader to make an in-person visit to open account; but not another

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

Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf

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

So let’s make $249,999

More evidence that Warren Buffet is an amateur demagogue and a hypocrite on taxes

Are Democrats planning to force you to put your 401(k), IRA, etc. into below-market-rate U.S. government bonds?

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

Death threat from a SEAL wife

Ralph Peters’ column on Petraeus’s hypocrisy

Is Petraeus a man of honor?

How to detect counterfeit currency in hyperinflation

Veterans Day

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

Cross-country trip

Shipping of …Hyperinflation & Depression and other titles a bit behind schedule due to overwhelming number of orders

Improvements made to the new 2nd edition of How to Protect Your Life Savings from Hyperinflation & Depression

Good column on debt by David Wessel—as far as it goes

Romney-Obama debate 10/3/12

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

Campaigns are both about rearranging the deck chairs, not the only issue that matters: debt-to-GDP ratio

Leaving the country when you own immobile hard assets in the U.S.

Inability of American government officials to understand the meaning of freedom of speech and religion

Quantitative Easing III

Mormon food storage approach

Quit obsessing about the presidential election polls

Romney has money in Australia and Canada

What my recent routine car repair says about Amercians, free enterprise, and Obama’s government-is-always-best propaganda

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

How writing lets you spend your life communicating with the three or four people in every community who would have been your best friends if you lived there rather than trying to get popular with people like those who were not your friends in high school

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 Ryan VP choice

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

Aurora, CO incident

Stephanie Pomboy’s interview about the End of Fiat Money

2012 campaign

Review of How to Retire Overseas

Amazon competes with its own merchants

Don’t learn Mandarin

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)

A readers shares contact info with a New Zealand bank that allows you to open an account there without visiting in person

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

If you had one or more foreign financial accounts in 2011, make sure you file Form TD F 90-22.1 by June 30th.

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

Switzerland National Bank is considering capital controls on franc to prevent from increasing in value.

Romney owns Australian and Canadian dollar-denominated assets

You read it here first: Europeans moving their money out of the shaky countries. The U.S. is also a shaky country.

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.

Who buys gold?

What having foreign creditors meant to Britain in 1956

Keith Olbermann Syndrome

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

The NY Times entitlements map

‘Wounded warriors’

Review of It Can’t Happen Here

Santorum

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

The Somalia SEAL rescue

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

U.S. Navy SEAL bloopers

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

The day the dollar dies

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

Tebow

Copy the Confederate Constitution: 1 subject per law

2011 Army-Navy Game

Take a look at Canadian and Australian currencies

Republican candidates 2011

Homeless in the Grand Canyon

Occupy Wall Street

Stop the presses—Herman Cain conjugated a verb

‘Anonymous sources’

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

John T. Reed on Steve Jobs

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

‘If you can keep it’

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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