Should 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 ...
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- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
Political-Economics and Ted Lasso
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...
- Dec 28, 2021
- 6 min
Crypto: Harnessing Labor and Wealth to Produce a Product
Which is what corporations normally do... While many consider the true purpose of corporations is to mistreat customers, pollute the...
- Dec 28, 2021
- 6 min
Who 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, 2021
- 4 min
WTF 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, 2021
- 5 min
Do 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, 2021
- 4 min
Short Selling and GameStop
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....
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
What 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 27, 2021
- 4 min
Easy Money Buying and Selling U.S. Treasuries
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...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
Paying People Not to Work
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...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
Understanding the Wealth Flow of Bonds
This piece assumes that you have read my two prior blogs pertaining to economics… Understanding the Wealth Flow of Real Estate...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Catching the Tail of a Meteor
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...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
Understanding the Wealth Flow of Real Estate Investments
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...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
What are Stocks, and Should You Invest in Them?
Ready to invest in the stock market? Make some extra cash by buying low and selling high? Or perhaps go with the vastly more popular, yet...
- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
Corporations: Are They All Evil?
Whether it be Skynet or the Umbrella Corp, corporations today are Hollywood’s preferred go-to villain, a distinction previously...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 min
How Much Wealth in a Dollar?
It is much easier to value a Big Mac… You work, and wealth is transferred to you using dollars. You know how many dollars you earn each...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Wealth, Money, Markets and Prices
Money, markets and prices all contribute to a more efficient economy, to maximize the creation of wealth. Most financial assets...
- Oct 25, 2020
- 4 min
What is Wealth?
It is hard to measure, but we know it when we see it. We know that wealth is transferred using money, but what exactly is wealth, and...
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
Bitcoin is Money
Thanks in part to two stabilizing characteristics. Recall from the prior blog: Money is anything that many within a given society believe...
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Wealth is Not Money, and Money is Not Wealth
This is the mantra... If money was wealth, then governments could simply print their way to prosperity. Many have tried, all have failed....
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