The Changing Money Myth In the movie “The Artist,” George Valentin gets caught up with the advent of movie sound and left behind as an actor. Like the typewriter repair person, he is rendered useless by technological change. In a tribute to the old Hollywood silent days it is against all odds that a movie [...]
I dream worlds. They are other worlds which I figure must be in alien realms or distant lands. I used to dream about relationships which contained the characters in my life like one would view a play at a theater. No more, I only see some bizarre world where I can’t explain what happens or [...]
When was I in junior high school, otherwise now known as middle school, my heart would delight when I would see the AV kids (that’s audio-visual for the uninitiated) there when I entered a room. This would mean that there, in the back of the room, was a projector that would show us a film. [...]
It’s official. The financial markets have been diagnosed with bipolar disease. Wildly down one day and then up the next (or even during the same day). Everyone wants to know whether consumers will have the confidence to keep buying anything and everything they can find. One day it seems we will keep buying and buying [...]
Belief in the Illusion that is Money There is movie called “Catfish.” The movie is in the style of a documentary where the filmmaker’s attempt to delve into the life of an eight-year old painter only to find out that the whole thing was manufactured online by the girl’s mother. The mother turns out to [...]
Re-imagining Money as a Fair Tender There is a quote by William Faulkner that “History isn’t dead; it’s not even past.” There is a lot of talk that with the U.S. national debt where it is, this unsustainable level will bring the U.S. and its currency down. In this context, I would like to rework [...]
…Thou Shalt Buy Meaning. Thou Shalt Sell Money. Thou Shalt Hold Change How to Be a Productive Economic Being in a Changing World Here are two sugar world stories. About fifteen years ago, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell created Sugarscape, a simplified computer model for how an economy can take shape. There was a [...]
Let me take you back to a simpler time. There were protests, riots, war, assassinations, sex, and drugs. Of course, I am referring to the sixties and seventies. Some people confuse the word simple with innocent. While the fifties might have been innocent, most of us would not consider the sixties as simple. As individuals [...]
Advice for decision makers You are interviewing three candidates to find a new financial investment manager. You ask the first prospect if: a) (fill-in – interest rates/stocks/bonds/economy) are going to go up or down. The potential advisor gives you a confident answer that things will be going up and good reasons to back it up. [...]
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. -Sid Caesar Collaboration (Part I) Think dinosaur. Big massive body with a tiny head and a long tail should come to mind. Let’s use that metaphor for money exchange, idea exchange, and where most [...]
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