Do you have "better things to do" than understand why everyone, including you, is feeling so frustrated these days?
UBI & Bitcoin = perfect together? (or is anything really perfect?)
We live in interesting times, to say the least. No one can really agree on anything, yet everyone seems to expect everyone
Imagine if baseball worked like monetary policy?
What if baseball worked like monetary policy? Forget guys like Rob Manfred, Bud Selig, Fay Vincent. What if we put someone like
What do you value most?
What do you value most? Family? Friends? Independence? Intellect? Wealth? Achievement? Power? Beauty? Charity? Purpose? Justice? The sooner we realize we don’t
Why economorals?
“An economy without a shared morality is destined to fail (in relative terms, of course).” (you know, applying the whole “moral relativism”
Can paradise be found in prudence?
Have a little extra "choice" with your low-debt coconut drink?
When even the Fed is warning on asset prices (or when the rules just keep on changin’)
Who should be doing the worrying when the Fed is warning “Asset prices remain vulnerable to significant price declines"?
Math is universal. Income thresholds are not.
"...the $120k salary guy nets out with $144k on the year, while the $121k salary guy nets out with - well, $121k."
Is it worth it to be careful when carelessness pays just as well?
It’s refreshing to know there are at least some companies that still see prudent financial & risk management practices (i.e. saving for
The hazards of discussing moral hazard?
Who do you think deserves help?
The kids are angry because they’re not getting “value” – are any of us?
"...claims of “unjust enrichment,” arguing that it’s unfair for the schools to profit from services they didn’t provide.”
When debt is always the solution, what is the final solution?
"...the dangers of seeking to solve the problems of debt with more debt."
Bad things happen. How we respond makes all the difference.
"the choice (or at least the outcome of those choices) is simple - more inequality, or less inequality"
Time to “Go Kondo” on the economy? It might depend who you ask.
Simplicity might be in the eye of the beholder. Is your economic system "sparking joy"?
Survival of the unfit?
"...spurring investors to prop up firms that may not be fit to survive." (or, when can I book my next cruise vacation?)
Would you bother to play if you knew the game was rigged?
"I really have no faith"..."I have no faith in the system" (and what happens if we all stop playing?)
Risk/Reward: Is “living” enough of a reward?
"...as a senior citizen he would be willing to risk his life in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves
Millennials about to get first (or second?) taste of “moral hazard” in the housing market?
In some ways, it’s not unlike what transpired a decade ago in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis – prospective homebuyers,
Is everything feeling “just peachy” to you?
"...many deaths, many jobs lost, a lot of trauma and massive economic dislocation...the stock market believes that none of that matters"