Monday, June 13th, 2011
Crash Course: Chapter 6 – What is Money? by Chris Martenson
via youtube.com This is a very nice explanation of the origins of money.
Entries Tagged as 'money'
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
How the Proteus effect can help you save money
It can be a powerful tool. Experiments have shown that if you are sent into a virtual-reality environment with a particularly good-looking “avatar,” or digital self-image, you are likely to become more sociable. Seeing your avatar exercising in a virtual world can spur you to add an hour a day to your exercise routine in [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
The Fiscal Singularity is Near
I don’t think we will get much past 2020 along our current policy path. I need to work out scenarios more carefully, but the interest cost of the debt as a percent of GDP is the debt times the nominal interest rate. If the nominal interest rate were 10 percent in 2020, then the interest [...]
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Pics Roll – Interesting pictures, images, videos, Wallpapers and funny sketches: Amazing One Dollar Art
via picsroll.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Feds seek arrest of Liberty Dollar creators
Fed’s seek arrest of the makers of the Liberty Dollar. I think Norfed had a crappy, confusing business model, but it’s pretty clear the government is arresting them because they dared offer a competing currency to our inflation-prone dollar:
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Evolutionary psychology in five pictures
Adriana Volpe – An ex-girlfriend. Naomi Campbell – Another ex-girlfriend Heidi Klum – Yet another ex. (But not before he impregnated her with a daughter. ) Elisabetta Gregoraci – his current wife. So who is the hunky stud who won the hearts of all these world-class supermodels?
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Legal tender laws – an offer we can’t refuse
You ever wonder what “legal tender” means? Wikipedia has a fascinating answer: “…During the American Civil War, the federal government was unable to pay its debts with gold or silver coin, so began to issue paper notes to pay its debts, when people refused to accept them in payment, Congress adopted the Legal Tender Act [...]
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
How bad money keeps good money down
I had read about the Liberty Dollar raids several months ago, but I didn’t know what to make of them, since it wasn’t obvious from the news reports whether they were shut down for creating a competing currency, or whether they were shut down for other, more legitimate reasons. A comment on a discussion about [...]
