Hey all, just wanted to re-up this offer before the weekend. Thanks again for subscribing. Dear reader, If you’ve received this email, Substack would have me believe you reside outside the U.S. Consider me jealous! Here in the U.S. … well, you know the story. I know you know, because, among other things, the world has rendered its verdict on our follies by de-dollarizing. This is generally bad news—for this newsletter, the U.S., and in many ways for the world. But it’s good for you, as a subscriber, because it means Off Message has never been cheaper in most of your home currencies! (Ha ha?) As a form of atonement, and to help steady things here through turbulence ahead, I want to make it even cheaper-still, by offering Off Message readers abroad a 50 percent discount for one year. This is the steepest discount we’ve ever offered, and isn’t part of our regular business plan. But weird times call for improvisation. A bigger-than-usual sale, on a product that can’t be tariffed, denominated in cheap dollars? What a steal! To be a bit less flip, I hope you’ll take me up on the offer. I know everyone is wracked with uncertainty, not just those of us who live stateside, and in uncertain times it feels imprudent to sign up for more subscription services. And, to make matters worse, it’s entirely because of what our government has done. But I’m in this for the long haul. I’ll be plugging away when we come out of this just as I am now. So if you’ve been on the fence about becoming a paid subscriber—interested, but inclined to let things to settle down a bit first—perhaps this will entice you into a membership. Whatever you decide, thank you for reading. It means everything. Yours, Brian |