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It will soon become apparent that I have been reading the Economist. I was reading the Economist today when I was granted a flash, a fleeting glimpse, at insight into the tenuousness hold on reality that we give money. There was a passage in an article on the Anthropocene, the geological period in which a [...]
Could a touch of measured caution and risk management, which is more inherent to women’s financial acumen, have prevented some of the costly mistakes that sent stock markets spiraling?
Barring a time machine that could give us a conclusive answer, here’s at least one bit of compelling evidence that it’s time to get more women managing massive amounts of money.
Invention – Digital cash for the Internet – How Bitcoins Work
by Marshall Brain | March 23, 2011
Think about the cash that we use today. If I want to, I can give you a one dollar bill. I don’t need to tell anyone I am doing it. It does not need to be recorded anywhere. You don’t have to tell anyone or record it either. You simply slip my one dollar bill [...]
Flattr, which describes itself as a “social micropayment” system, made it to both The Economist magazine and Wired magazine in January, so it must be making some headway. Here is a very compact statement of how Flattr works and how it benefits the web: From Flattr’s about page: Flattr was founded to help people share [...]
Invention – Proverbial Wallets – The wallets that give you feedback
by Marshall Brain | December 8, 2010
This video points out an interesting thing about the switch from paper money (dollar bills) to electronic money (credit cards and straight bank drafts). With paper money we have a tangible way to gauge how much money you have and how much money is going out the door. With electronic money we lose the tangible [...]
Last week, depending on how connected you are with economic issues, you may or may not have heard about the Fed’s new initiative called QE2. Even if you did hear about it, it was hard to cut through the noise and figure out exactly what happened. And you may have heard some surprising predictions – [...]
Stuff that makes you go Hmmm #21 – How to wrap presents in money
by Marshall Brain | September 13, 2010
Is this funny? Innovative? Obscene? Appalling?
If you have a job, there seem to be three ways to look at today’s economy in the United States. One way is to ignore the millions of people who have become unemployed recently. Another way is to mock and belittle them all. The third is to learn about what is happening. Last week, for [...]
High blood pressure is one of those things that is incredibly common, and incredibly expensive to the health care system. According to this page…
Hello there, folks. Hope everyone had a good enough week in your neck of the galaxy. This week was a little different because Joshers is in Japan. That means no recording and a little extra time on my hands, which I’ve spent playing around with you kooks on Facebook. Who knew how much fun it would be swapping stories and such?
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