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You Get What You Incentivize (Newsletter 016)
If your appetite is unlimited, no amount will ever be sufficient to satisfy your wants. No amount of tax is "fair" when there is no limit on what you aim to spend and redistribute.
Economics
These posts cover financial and economic topics, including taxes, financing, macro- and micro-economics
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How Does It Benefit Me? (Newsletter 015)
We are not entitled to unlimited freedom at the expense of our fellow citizens.
My Two Cents
If You Did Your Performance Review Like A Central Bank
This one is for everyone who's wondering what's up with "core inflation" and "transitory" inflation.
Newsletters
Don't WFH Yourself Out Of A Job (Newsletter 014)
If it is true that your job can be performed perfectly well remotely, does it necessarily follow that your job can only be performed by you?
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Opinions Are (Mostly) Free (Newsletter 003)
Greetings friends! James Bellerjeau here. Three is a powerful number, as far as these things go. It is in fact the third most powerful. Ask a decorator how many items they group together to finish a room. It is three. One, two, or four just don't look as
My Two Cents
The United States Is Not Bankrupt ... Yet
If we continue to spend more than we earn, eventually we will find that we need to sell assets to generate cash flow.
My Two Cents
Pull The Emergency (Debt) Brake
The problems the U.S. faces with both its regular deficit spending and its expanding debt to GDP ratio are serious but solvable. Waiting until disaster strikes would mean the remedy would be that much more painful: think Greece or Venezuela.