The following is a non-comprehensive list of books that I have read for the year 2012. I am doing this in 2013 and will obviously not be able to remember everything I’ve read, but I thought it might be nice to think about it and track it for 2013. Applicable links follow. God in the…
The following is part 2 (and the conclusion so far, until next discussion) of a long facebook discussion primarily about gold as money. For Part 1, see here. Brian http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=3921 That result is enabled by the money supply being inflated, which is bad, because it means that people can’t store value in money, and so…
One of the few reasons why facebook is awesome: I can randomly discuss economics with a complete stranger for over a week. The discussion is still on going but because of its wide content I wanted to include it here. Alex and I started discussing money after one of our mutual friends/acquaintance Brian posted a…
As an addendum to the post earlier this week on Vain Selfishness, here is a quote by George MacDonald on the same topic. Here there is no room for ambition. Ambition is the desire to be above one’s neighbor; and here there is no possibility of comparison with one’s neighbor: no one knows what the…
To anyone who’s read Ayn Rand or a few other capitalistic books; you might be aware of how touchy some of us can get around the world “selfish”. Ayn Rand wrote a book even titled “The Virtue of Selfishness”. A virtue, not a vice. Christians can have an extra disagreement with these kinds of phrases…
The Economical Engineer 