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This Tuesday
The setup for the coming video — the question, the composite, the framework you'll need to follow the math.
One essay. Three tactical bullets. The numbers worth knowing this week.
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Four sections. Under six minutes. Written for someone who earns in one currency, pays rent in two, and has a family plan that spans a passport.
The setup for the coming video — the question, the composite, the framework you'll need to follow the math.
Twenty minutes. No spreadsheets required. Something you can act on before Tuesday, whether or not you watch.
From the reporting file that didn't fit the video. One figure worth remembering, in context.
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A short excerpt from Issue #01, our premiere Sunday.
Welcome.
If you're reading this, you're one of the first hundred people to subscribe to Two Flags Weekly, and that's a compliment I don't intend to waste.
Every Sunday morning, this newsletter drops two days before a new video goes live on Tuesday. The video is the deep dive. The newsletter is the primer — the question the video answers, the framework you'll need to follow it, and one thing you can act on today whether or not you press play on Tuesday.
No teasers to a paid tier. No affiliate flood. No motivational posts about "the mindset of wealth." If you've read newsletters aimed at Africans in the diaspora before, you know exactly the register I am not writing in.
You moved from Lagos to Maryland. You are on a $92,000 salary. Your parents call you rich now. Are they right?
Adaobi is a composite — Maryland NICU nurse, age 31 — but every number in her file is drawn from real 2026 tax tables, real bank rates, and a real remittance discipline that half our audience will recognise as their own. What she pays out every month, before she has spent a single dollar on herself, will surprise the people who taught you the word rich.
— continues in the full issue on Sunday 19 July.
Issue #01 drops Sunday 19 July 2026.
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