Jeff Opdyke was born and raised in South Louisiana and has been traveling the world for more than 50 years. He spent 17 years covering personal finance and investing for The Wall Street Journal in Dallas, Seattle, and New York, and for seven years wrote the Journal's nationally syndicated Love & Money column that chronicled the real ways personal finances and personal relationships clash. Today Jeff serves as editor of Global Intelligence Letter and writes the daily Field Notes e-letter, covering the shifting global economic order, and the slow-motion decline of the dollar and the American empire. He has traveled to nearly 80 countries and currently lives and writes from Braga, Portugal, as a Senior Contributing Editor for International Living. He is the author of 11 books on global investing, personal finance, and expat life. Find Jeff's newsletter, books, and social channels at globalintelltr, and you know the rest of that address.