As I said in a letter to all my friends, readers and soon-to-be subscribers, pull up that proverbial easy chair and come "sit at the table with us." This is going to be a lot of fun.
It's going to be informative too and you will thoroughly enjoy listening to these "Exclusive Conversations with me and my Friends" as we discuss the complex financial, economic and geo-political issues shaping the world today, and how they will affect you, your family and your business!
My regular Friday letter Thoughts From The Frontline is my way of bringing into focus what I think is the most important idea I have learned over the previous week. And you get to peek over my shoulder, as it were when I send my letter to you. I started out sending the letter in August of 2000 to a small number of friends and others who said they wanted to get my thoughts. And now it goes to over 1.5 million of my closest friends each week.
I do spend a lot of time reading, researching and thinking. It's my day job and I love it. I suspect my information resources would cost most people over $100,000 a year, and many of them are only available to select groups. I am very privileged to have built up this network over the last 28 years. I read hundreds of articles, essays, newsletters, books and emails each week, and then spend hours processing what I have learned.
My secret sauce?
I have been blessed with a rather large network of some of the best minds in our business (economic, financial, geopolitical or social). That access has been the real secret to whatever it is that I do. I get to learn from the best, and from time to time get to share with them an idea or two as well. Being able to pick up the phone or shoot off an email is a very special privilege.
The best conversations happen amongst trusted friends, often over dinner when subjects flow seamlessly from one to another. Unplanned, unscripted conversations such as these are undoubtedly among the most interesting times of my year.
I can't tell you the number of times over the years that friends have come away from dinners or casual meetings with some of the more famous (and not so famous but should be) analysts and economists and thinkers and remark how impacting and thought provoking the conversation was, and how they wished they could sit in on more conversations like that.
After one of those special evenings, my daughter and business partner Tiffani came to me and said "Dad, we have got to start recording these conversations. They are just too special to let fade into memory. I have learned so much from osmosis. More people should be allowed to 'listen in.'" And she is right. I do wish you could be "at the table" with me.
Each Conversation includes one or two of my special friends, and we talk about what is interesting and relevant to us as individuals and as business people at the moment. Just like we do at the table, where the back and forth of the dialogue dictates the path of the conversation, where the topics change and the discussion takes a new direction for the moment, we will test our ideas on each other and weigh in with our opinions on a wide range of topics.
Your excited about our next conversation analyst,
John F. Mauldin
P.S. I know we have created something very special judging from the comments I'm getting from readers all over the world. Come sit at the table with me and my friends. Subscribe today...I know you'll be glad you did.