Stagnant Wages? Not Here
We hear plenty these days about stagnant wages. But for one group of workers, the pay has been anything but... In fact, their compensation rose nearly 50% in the past decade! And even though we're…
Category: Economics
A Massive Housing Shortage Is Coming
"I got the house!" wrote my friend "K." She was pumped because she had been on the hunt for a house for six months. She "lost" two houses to higher bids. Nationwide, you're seeing this…
Blockchain: Open Source Money
"Blockchains are simply distributed transaction processing engines. The technology allows data to be stored in a variety of different places while tracking the relationship between different parties to that data. Most people trying to explain…
Why Governments Drive People Into Poverty
The situation in Australia is rather dire as the government tightens welfare payments and clamps down on pensioners with assets, such as the family home. Until now the unemployed enjoyed a decent benefit from Centrelink…
The Economic Cinderella Story of 2017
I don't know about you, but I'm suffering from "exit" fatigue... Frexit? French voters said "Non" with the weekend election of Emmanuel Macron. And with all the other discussions about a slowing economy amid last…
Morality Lost, The Age Of Decadence
We have seen it on our TV screens, we hear it on the radio, we continue to witnesses it in the movies and we have experienced it in person. The age of decadent amoral behavior…
A Concerning Chinese Revolution
There's reason to be concerned about China - at least, its robotic revolution.We're facing an ever-evolving world that's spitting out innovative technological breakthroughs with the torrid pace of a tennis ball launcher on uppers. Pew:…
Do You Think Huge Bonuses Paid to City Bankers Are A Good Thing?
Does it make any kind of sense to have a few people who produce nothing getting paid huge amounts of money for shuffling around electrons and pieces of paper. These guys (and girls) are being…
Inflation Goes Global
Over the past year, a not-so-funny thing happened...Prices for nearly everything we import into this country went up in a big way.In a textbook case of "be careful what you wish for," inflation appears to…
Dangers Of Lacking Financial Education And Giving Value To Others
In this article, I am going to talk about the dangers of lacking financial and values education which are just as important as our school education which mainly and still focuses on theory and academic…