May 54 minSolving the Student Loan Debt ProblemThe Medicine Will be Difficult to Swallow There is a common misconception that forgiving student loan debt will be an economic boon for...
Mar 224 minConfused About the Source of Inflation?Only if one chooses to ignore the obvious. For many centuries our ancestors thought that the stars and planets circled around the Earth,...
Mar 12 minI just sent Bitcoin to the Ukraine GovernmentBecause we have been empowered Something profound is happening right now in the global financial space. In response to Russia’s invasion...
Feb 275 minI Found the James Webb Space Telescope With my 7-inch TelescopeOne of these stars is actually the JWST Watch this time-lapse video to see which one it is The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in...
Feb 254 minThe Magic of MoneyHigh Inflation is a Government Created Dark Spell It stands to reason, without scientific proof, that if as many as possible people...
Dec 28, 20216 minCapitalism and Angel Investors“It is not from the benevolence of the angel investor that we expect our funding, but from their regard to their own interest.” (My...
Dec 28, 20215 minWe Must Not Fear, Fear is the Wealth KillerWe cannot stay off the sand forever. In my prior blog “Paying People Not to Work”, I concluded: “There is a price to pay for shutting...
Dec 28, 20216 minShould You Invest in an ETF Holding Bitcoin Futures Contracts?What Does Any of this Mean? An ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is a collection of securities (stocks, bonds, whatever) that can be ...
Dec 28, 20214 minPolitical-Economics and Ted LassoIs this really the best way to solve complex problems? What is there not to like about Apple’s “Ted Lasso?” The very fictional story of...
Dec 28, 20216 minCrypto: Harnessing Labor and Wealth to Produce a ProductWhich is what corporations normally do... While many consider the true purpose of corporations is to mistreat customers, pollute the...
Dec 28, 20216 minWho Sets Interest Rates?If you answered, “that’s easy, the Federal Reserve,” guess again! The following statement is not true: “In the U.S., interest rates are...
Dec 28, 20214 minWTF is an NFT?And why do they have value? NFT stands for “Non-Fungible Token,” which is, of course, gibberish. Fungible sounds a lot like fungus but...
Dec 28, 20215 minDo Extra Dollars Distort the Distribution of Wealth?The data suggests yes. The government does not directly create wealth. No, wealth creation would be the output of productive private...
Dec 28, 20214 minShort Selling and GameStopThe times they are a changing… As of Feb 1, 2021, the price of MSFT stock was $232 per share, with a market cap of $1.79 trillion....
Dec 28, 20214 minWhat Sets the Price of Stocks?Exactly how did GameStop stock increase from $147 to $310 in one day? Like any other financial asset, the price of any publicly traded...
Dec 28, 20214 minEasy Money Buying and Selling U.S. TreasuriesThe thirty year party is about to end. U.S. Treasury debt is a financial asset, unique in that it is backed by the full faith and...
Dec 28, 20214 minPaying People Not to WorkThe cold, hard truth is that this is the worst economic decision that a society can make. Wealth will be gathered from all by devaluing...
Dec 28, 20213 minUnderstanding the Wealth Flow of BondsThis piece assumes that you have read my two prior blogs pertaining to economics… Understanding the Wealth Flow of Real Estate...
Dec 28, 20212 minCatching the Tail of a MeteorThis is what you missed last night Time to take a break from the “dreary science”, i.e., economics. One of my other hobbies is...
Dec 28, 20214 minUnderstanding the Wealth Flow of Real Estate InvestmentsMeasuring in dollars can be deceitful. The original definition of a meter was 1/10,000,000th the distance from the Earth’s equator to...