UBI – That Radical Right-Wing Idea?
Last week’s post — on a poverty eradication experiment in Africa of giving no-strings-attached cash — was a bit of a Trojan horse for this week: UBI
Last week’s post — on a poverty eradication experiment in Africa of giving no-strings-attached cash — was a bit of a Trojan horse for this week: UBI
Here’s a radical thesis about the best way to eliminate poverty: Give money. Don’t give stuff. Also, don’t give conditional money, either, expecting the recipient
I judged this book by the arresting title Dark Age Ahead, and decided that – in my current frame of mind – I had to read it.1
My wife (a doctor) likes health, and I like money. In that sense, our marriage represents the intersection of two things everybody wants more of.
Editor’s Note: The History Teacher sent his eldest daughter off to a private four-year college this Fall, so read my posts on college finance with
Just some light reading in the final weekend before the US Presidential election. I checked Rome In The Late Republic by Mary Beard and Michael Crawford
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. For reals. It’s also really fun for me.
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