It’s in your food supply. It affects your health. The Fed Chairman does it. Robin Hood did it. Dying people must deal with it. The 1% get their share but so do single Moms. You can find it in merit scholarships. It was behind the Cold War. It pits the old against the young and [...]
Knowledgeable Pinheads and Sneaky Pickpockets make the Economic Universe Let’s go back to the beginning…the very beginning. All matter was gold until the great explosion sent gold pieces hurling into deep space. When the stars and planets formed though they were not just made of gold and land but combined with labor and capital. And [...]
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 [...]
Exercise: What have you done in your life that was done for money but felt wrong since you believed that you didn’t have a better choice? As each person ages, we must decide at what point do we apply the label “old” to ourselves. Like becoming rich, there is not one point when you are [...]
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 [...]
The other night, I was out with my son in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. He was also going out of town that evening so we had to arrange a rendezvous with his friends who he was going to be driving with. I thought to myself that in my day, we did not have [...]
The Story of I, We, and IT continued The history of homo-economicus has always been about a battle between the I and the We. For each side, the IT has always been about equality. The I’s want equality of prospects for individuals to have the freedom to pursue the goals and motivations without government getting [...]
Living in Los Angeles, I am inundated with stories in the papers about Frank McCourt, the owner of the Dodgers baseball team. His fate seems to also be aligned with the other news in the form of the nefarious Momar Gadhafi of Libya as they both try to cling to power with institutional forces trying [...]
If you happened to have checked out the Resources Section of this website, there are a number of ways to check into alternative currencies. I also mention The Future of Money by Bernard Lietar in the Books Section of the Resources tab. You could also start exploring alternative currencies by checking out Thomas Greco’s website [...]
I saw something that I hadn’t seen in quite some time. I saw the carpet on the floor of my son’s room. He had, get this parents, cleaned his room of his own volition. Now as parenting battles go, we had lost this one a long time ago only to try and win the greater [...]
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