A large man in a khaki security uniform came thudding toward us. He not only sounded like a charging Rhino but he had a look on his face like he meant business. I looked down and the little boy that I was speaking to had vanished into thin air and was simply just not there […]
A Challenge to Millennials: Recreate a World Where Participation Has Meaning There are a scant few who would defend that money works. If you are one of the lucky ones for whom it is working, than you would also be one of those who are quietly doing the defending. For the vast majority though, money […]
The Great Shift Away From Economic Justice “The day of reckoning is here, we’re at the end of an era where we have Democratic spending policies and Republican tax policies. The result has been huge deficits and mounting debt burdens. It doesn’t work”- David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general. Rome wasn’t built in a day, […]
A Key to the Financial Planning Lock: “Off With Your Head!” Alice thought to herself, “Then there’s no use in speaking.” The voices didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her great surprise they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means-for I must confess […]
In Part I, we were looking into that the money is coin is made up of risk on one side with control on the other and that each one is a concept made up by language. So we come back to money as a socially constructed illusion. What our culture loves to tell us to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The History of the Future of Money (Part I) Before this Little Piggy went to market, there was a big ol’ hairy Rat that took all his money and started a race. This was a grand race, called the It-diderod which most everyone called by the diminutive of It. The further that the race progressed, […]
In part I, how culture uses its large institutions may be blocking the changes needed to sustain the very institutions that we need. We need these institutions to not only flourish but for our survival. We used the examples of college admissions, collegiate athletics, commodities trading, and political elections. Can we change the story of […]
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