It’s time for my annual report on the comment my publishers tell me they most often get from our readers:

“Mark writes about business, entrepreneurship, investing, and all sorts of other ways of building wealth, but what is he actually doing now with his money?”

It’s a fair question, and I don’t mind answering it. In fact, I don’t even mind giving away details in some cases to illustrate the ideas behind my decisions. But I do worry that because my strategy for building wealth is so much bigger and smarter and safer than just a stock portfolio, many readers, looking for a half-dozen super stock picks, will find it too much for their taste.

But that’s not stopping me from doing it again this year. What you are about to read is a 100% frank and open report on everything I’m doing to make, grow, and safeguard the wealth I’ve accumulated in the past 42 years, as well as several new things I’m doing that I’m excited about, some of which may surprise you.

Note: I’m not a broker or financial advisor. I’m a businessperson who has spent the better part of my life working in the center of the Financial Industrial Complex, working with some of the brightest minds in the business, learning from the sharpest analysts, listening to the smartest economists, and paying attention to the millions of ordinary investors that subscribe to these experts and make their decisions accordingly.

So that’s the “Main Course” for this issue.

But first, I want to share a few more thoughts I have had about the Portuguese since returning from Lisbon on Sunday, including some gross generalizations that I’m pretty sure are 90% true…