Since Memorial Day, I’ve been thinking about the work week. I read an article on Reddit the other day that brought up similar ideas.
Typical weeks of work in the American culture are roughly 40 hours per week spread over 5 days. In the business scene, the number of hours skews higher, typically more like 50-60 hours [...]
It took me quite a while to read it, but the Strike Debt document on all forms of debt really does a nice job of describing how the different forms of debt have such a heavy impact on so many groups of people. It focuses in especially on the groups of people that are discriminated [...]
During business school, I took a lot of time to learn about finance and started scratching the surface of economics in general. I don’t know why it happens that way. As you get older, the importance of economics and money just seem to become more important. I never considered myself a “finance” type of person, [...]
I had been reading the Haves and the Have Nots for a month or so before finishing it two weeks ago. It’s an exposition on global inequality, including historical perspectives on the differentials between households within countries and across the world.
Economics in general have been a hot button for me lately. Realistically, since the 2008 bubble and [...]
Are you the infinitely curious type wanting to understand more about what’s happening in the world and what it means on a real time basis? No? TOO BAD! This one’s not for you.
I’ve always enjoyed looking at statistics about the US like at census.gov. It was a primary tool we used [...]
I read Mark Thoma’s blog regularly. It’s an economics blog, Mark seems to be a left leaning sort with a recent track record of endorsing government policy that backs stimulus in order to fight unemployment. It’s a good blog in that he reposts a great deal of economics articles that I otherwise wouldn’t look up.
Recently [...]
I started in on the next Economics book, The Law (that’s the actual text!) by Frederic Bastiat tonight, and it was so sparse I read it in a little over an hour. I was not expecting that.
This is more a novella than anything and is really a just a longer essay that explains the sole [...]
Well, actually, by definition, money is a commodity.
That’s why it was developed in the first place, to combat the inability to trade unlike skill sets or goods in barter. But the idea that money is a commodity and can go up in value or down in value caught me off guard. It’s yet [...]