Are you prepared for stagflation?

Published in February 4th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A few days ago I heard the recession word used for the first time as in “we are now in a recession”. The real question is whether this is going to be a short one (like they usually are) [...]

Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism

Published in February 3rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Philosophy

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The Master said: “Ci, do you regard me as someone who learns much and commits it all to memory?”
Zi-gong replied: “Yes, are you not?”
The Master said: “No, I use one string to tie it all together.”
– from the Analects of Confusius
Have you ever noticed that what used to be referred to as citizens or workers [...]

This week’s roundup - the “How to keep warm when the thermostat is set at 55F” edition.

Published in February 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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This week it finally stopped raining for long enough to play the second hockey game of the year. This was a pickup game which unlike a league game is not optimal for a center-forward since pickup games are more disorganized with less of a team factor. Anyway, what has this to do with lowering the [...]

The problem with the economic stimulus package and what to do about it

Published in February 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Finance, Strategy

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Economically speaking, the government is a zero-sum game that takes money from one group and distributes it to another group with the intention to somehow improve the world. For instance, when the government engages in war, it gets money from taxpayers (through the IRS) and savers (by issuing and selling bonds) and gives it to [...]

My favorite writings of January 2008

Published in February 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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On Friday December 28th 2007 I decided to move from blogspot to my own domain after having blogged for about 3 weeks. During the following month subscribers increased from 27 to 176 and I reached 10,000 unique visitors. As this is much more than I expected I have stopped setting small intermediate goals. Instead I’m [...]

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