A PLUME BOOK

THE 3% SIGNAL

JASON KELLY is the author of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a perennial bestseller. Every Sunday morning, he delivers The Kelly Letter by e-mail, providing what many subscribers call the best read of the week. Having realized his dream of being able to live and work anywhere in the world, Jason moved to Japan in 2002, where he works from his office in the countryside about two hours from Tokyo.

After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, he started Socks for Japan, a volunteer organization that hand-delivered 160,000 care packages from around the world to survivors. More than 70 percent of donations came from the United States. In that moment of crisis, seeing return labels from churches, Brownie troops, neighborhood coffee shops, small-town light and power departments, Mrs. Wilson’s fourth-grade class, and other mainstays of American culture filled him with pride for his country.

He keeps busy writing new books and The Kelly Letter. With his sister and business partner, Emily, he co-owns Red Frog Coffee in Longmont, Colorado. Visit his website at jasonkelly.com.