Around the same time that my serious forays into economics began, I also became involved with the planning of a wedding – my own. I say the important words Saturday night, but I hadn’t realized until today how intertwined some of my wedding frustrations and economic frustrations actually were. Economics often borrows from sociology, game [...]
Infographic: Student Loan Scheme
October 31, 2011 at 08:56 by
So StumbleUpon brought me to this awesome InfoGraphic, and since it fits the theme of the site I thought I’d share it with you all. I’m aware that this is a sad excuse for a post and doesn’t excuse me from writing one today. I just thought I’d throw it out there before I got [...]
E-Ducation
October 28, 2011 at 11:12 by
Something is happening in the world today that is absolutely blowing my mind. It reaffirms things that I’ve believed for years about education and the nature of the internet and I’d like to share it with you. The news has been talking a lot lately about the Stanford AI class being offered for free over the [...]
Is Bitcoin Targeting the Wrong Demographic?
October 27, 2011 at 09:20 by
At present, Bitcoin has been adopted mostly by the middle-class of America and Europe, which is to be expected as with any new technology. The middle and upper-middle class of the “first world” are almost invariably the early adopters. The early adopters, obviously enough, want to see Bitcoin flourish in their neck of the woods [...]
Why We Can’t Predict Anything
October 26, 2011 at 09:12 by
Every time I turn around I see technical analysis failing, economic models failing and the best and brightest failing to answer the simple question: “what’s going to happen tomorrow?” A recent Scientific American article points out what should be an obvious reason to anyone with a background in mathematics but apparently is left out of the [...]
State of the Bitcoin Economy
October 25, 2011 at 11:37 by
It’s probably no secret to anyone who’s read my prior posts or known me for any length of time, that my economics have taken on a rather Austrian lean of late. I prefer the work of Hayek over Keynes, though I’ll concede many points to Keynes and others (nobody’s perfect but me after all) from [...]
Illegal Interest
October 24, 2011 at 11:12 by
There’s this wonderfully adaptable word that everyone should be familiar with, yet many folks simply aren’t: Usury. Today usury refers to the practice of charging excessive (often illegal) interest rates on a loan, but that’s not always what it meant. Originally, it meant charging interest of any kind on a loan – an act that [...]
Econ 101
October 22, 2011 at 21:10 by
So I’ve taken an interest in economics lately and thought I’d share the marvelous little link that StumbleUpon brought me to: Commanding Heights. That right there is a nice long PBS series on economics, specifically a brief history of modern economic theory from World War I through present time. I haven’t actually finished watching it [...]
Time for a change
October 21, 2011 at 23:32 by
I’ve started blogs before, I’ve got accounts on Twitter, facebook, Google+, Linkedin and I moderate a StackExchange site. These are all excellent sites and I use each for their own special purposes, but I’ve had nowhere to properly voice thoughts more than a paragraph or so – until now. So welcome to my sounding board, [...]
