Payers of Interest
Credit is not the same as real money. Owning a house is not the same as paying a mortgage on one.
American Life: Less Ordinary
American Life: Less Ordinary
It’s a poverty where you may still have most of the accoutrements of middle-class life. But your relationship with the financial elite has changed: you are indentured to the credit industry — for life
Strategic Investment
Strategic Investment
We come to what seems like a water-tight proposition: the more the feds get involved in the process of creating wealth, the less wealth is created.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The only big effect was to get people out of the cars they owned and into cars they didn’t own, requiring monthly payments! People who had had no auto debt now saw themselves indentured for four years
Alien Money
Alien Money
Our material lives have been taken over…clandestinely subjugated to strange and unnatural money. And now, we all depend on it.
Your loyalty and your submission
Your loyalty and your submission
We interrupt our romp through the funny money world…exploring the link between crooked money and crooked behavior…to give thanks for the whole funny money system.
The problem with fake money
The problem with fake money
Fake money seems to bring out the worst in people. Like the village prostitute, it is available to all…but cherished by none…and ultimately abused and depreciated.
Free Money to Change Your Life
Free Money to Change Your Life
The whole idea was to get money into the economy…so it could be spent. The fraudsters were just doing the jackasses in Washington a favor.
Everybody loves a Ponzi
Everybody loves a Ponzi
The trouble with history is that it is unforgiving. Like double entry bookkeeping, for every credit, there’s a debit. Attached to every rise is a fall. You can’t get one without the other.
Mouth of the South
Mouth of the South
The quality of America’s public and elected officials seems to have declined sharply over the last 50 years. Glancing back at the Watergate scandal we wonder if the Epstein Saga will go the same way.
