What the Hell is an Economy?

The Medicine Will be Difficult to Swallow There is a common misconception that forgiving student loan debt will be an economic boon for...

Only if one chooses to ignore the obvious. For many centuries our ancestors thought that the stars and planets circled around the Earth,...

Because we have been empowered Something profound is happening right now in the global financial space. In response to Russia’s invasion...

One 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...

High Inflation is a Government Created Dark Spell It stands to reason, without scientific proof, that if as many as possible people...

“It is not from the benevolence of the angel investor that we expect our funding, but from their regard to their own interest.” (My...

We 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...

What Does Any of this Mean? An ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is a collection of securities (stocks, bonds, whatever) that can be ...

Is 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...

Which is what corporations normally do... While many consider the true purpose of corporations is to mistreat customers, pollute the...

If you answered, “that’s easy, the Federal Reserve,” guess again! The following statement is not true: “In the U.S., interest rates are...

And why do they have value? NFT stands for “Non-Fungible Token,” which is, of course, gibberish. Fungible sounds a lot like fungus but...

The data suggests yes. The government does not directly create wealth. No, wealth creation would be the output of productive private...

The 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....

Exactly how did GameStop stock increase from $147 to $310 in one day? Like any other financial asset, the price of any publicly traded...

The 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...

The cold, hard truth is that this is the worst economic decision that a society can make. Wealth will be gathered from all by devaluing...

This piece assumes that you have read my two prior blogs pertaining to economics… Understanding the Wealth Flow of Real Estate...

This is what you missed last night Time to take a break from the “dreary science”, i.e., economics. One of my other hobbies is...

Measuring in dollars can be deceitful. The original definition of a meter was 1/10,000,000th the distance from the Earth’s equator to...