Connecting the Dots
You don't need pristine conditions to make money—that's the takeaway readers get from Patrick Watson's free letter, Connecting the Dots. It dives deep into current US and world events, and investigates how you can leverage them to your advantage.
Latest Articles
- February 21, 2023
The Dumbest Way to Save Social Security
Last month the 70 million or so people receiving Social Security benefits all got an 8.7% raise.
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- January 17, 2023
Workers Want to Work but It’s Still Not Enough
Remember when “jobs, jobs, jobs” was a political talking point?
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- December 19, 2022
A New Kind of Recession
Back in the 1990s somebody coined the phrase 'jobless recovery.' It describes an economy where recession is over, but unemployment remains stubbornly high.
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Patrick Watson
Editor, Connecting the DotsPatrick Watson is a compulsive trend-observer and John Mauldin's senior economic analyst. He and John first began collaborating around 30 years ago, and he contributes research and ideas to John's wildly popular weekly e-letter, Thoughts from the Frontline. When John needs to make sense of the senseless, Patrick is often the first person he looks to.
