The Tulip Craze Conspiracy
Have you heard of the Dutch Tulip craze? If so, you've likely fallen victim to centuries old propaganda. The Dutch tulip bubble of the 17th century never actually happened, at least not the way it is understood in popular culture.
2024-03-23
4 min read
Are we living in an advertising economy?
Consumer sentiment is at lows while the stock market is booming. How can that be?
2024-02-23
2 min read
The Numbers Behind Small Loans
The first legislator to regulate small consumer loans was Hammurabi. This shows that small consumer loans have been around for a while and seem to be a human universal. Yet they are vilified by detractors. Are they ursury or legitimate business? What are the numbers behind moneylending?
2023-09-23
13 min read
A quick view at P2P trading volumes on BISQ
Crypto newbies seem to forget that the original way to buy bitcoin was through peer-to-peer trading on sites like LocalBitcoins. Yet despite the high profile recent failures of centralised exchanges, P2P fiat on-and-offramps have also faced significant issues.
2023-09-17
2 min read
The Blind Men and the Coin - Part I
Cryptocurrency is a controversial topic. Yet much of the debate around it is confused because, like the blind men in the parable, both advocates and critics have a myopic view of what it is. Here I discuss the Crypto Casino and Crypto Movement.
2023-08-20
15 min read
The Blind Men and the Coin - Part II
Discussing the Tech and the Product of Crypto.
2023-08-20
14 min read
Old Age Originations
Seventy year old Americans got a lot of mortgages in 2021. Why? And what does that mean for the future?
2023-07-16
2 min read
From subprime crisis to the newly prime crisis
Credit score algorithms faced an unprecedented challenge during the Covid-19 crisis. Will we soon see the consequences?
2023-06-17
10 min read
Pricing, Profit and Paternalism
What do you do when you discover your most profitable customers are using your product wrong? A discussion on pricing, the morals of marketing and the costs of compliance.
Donald Trump, Paul Le Roux and the Dutch East India Company - Part 2
On corporate power and sovereign states in the Age of the Internet.