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I never pass up the opportunity to squeeze intel from people on the ground...

The bellhop seemed friendly as I walked into the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Shanghai. He spoke English well, and I asked him if he enjoyed working there.

Listen in to my chat this week with my friend Meb Faber.

Meb is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management... and a big deal in the finance world. He has an incredible Rolodex and an equally incredible guest list on his podcast.

After an Athenian jury sentenced him to death and his friends and followers in attendance began weeping, Socrates spoke...

"What is this strange outcry? ... I have been told that a man should die in peace. Be quiet, then, and have patience."

"Why can't you guys just agree?"

It's one of the most common questions I've seen recently. Folks don't understand why all of the analysts here at Stansberry Research can't agree on a specific topic...

A month into the new year and we're already hearing about data breaches...

Just a couple of weeks ago, news hit that more than 770 million e-mail addresses and passwords were put on a hacking website.

Wednesday was a record-breaking night for me here in Baltimore.

More than 32,000 people signed up for my Urgent Market Briefing.

The markets are at the wildest they've been in a full decade. December was the worst month for both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index since the Great Depression.

For a time, if the market dropped a few points, we'd laugh when the financial news brought out the "Markets in Crisis" graphics for what was just noise.

Once a year, I send out a 12-part list...

I always tell people to print it out and post it on the fridge or hang it up in their office. I think it's one of the most important issues of my Retirement Millionaire newsletter...

Doc's note: For our last issue of the year, I'm sharing the story of a 10-day investment tour of China with my friend and business partner Steve Sjuggerud, along with several dozen Stansberry Alliance members, where I detailed why my antennae are up for signs of coming danger.

This weekend, millions of Americans will crowd the roads, rails, and skies as they travel for Christmas.

With snow in the forecast for parts of the U.S., travel conditions could be hazardous, especially if you're driving.