Of Two Minds

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it’s just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can’t be both.

Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we’ve also lost any sense of future financial security.

Markets misbehave, sometimes when we least expect it. How badly they misbehave depends on the soundness of the hull and the level of self-reinforcing hubris.

Lowering one’s tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth understanding if you’re exploring self-employment.

The Problem With Money is that it’s complicated.

Meanwhile, in the lived-in world, our quality of life is unraveling in myriad ways as algorithmically-driven under-competence and mediocrity are now the norm.