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I'm usually conservative when it comes to investing...

Some of the folks here at the office even tease me about it.

The cannabis industry is breaking new ground... and making investors a lot of money.

Each month, more and more U.S. states are legalizing cannabis for both recreational and medical purposes. After last year's mid-term elections, Michigan became the 10th state to legalize recreational marijuana. And there are currently 33 states that have legalized medical marijuana.

We may be our own harshest critics. But we're only tough on ourselves so we can be the best for you, our readers.

That's why last week, when I shared our publisher's Report Card results, I said:

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.