Please don't hit the back button when I say this, but you've just clicked on a post about macroeconomics. If you want to learn how to make central bankers squirm and understand why various problems exist

When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my mother told me, with a sigh, that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. When I asked her to explain to me how that worked, she couldn't. All that mattered was

American politics - it's basically reality TV for people who love to look down on reality TV. The show is about a same-sex couple called Republicans and Democrats and the the plot in recent episodes has

I have a knack for breaking taboos. Or maybe I just have a knack for proving to people that the World won’t implode around them by doing or saying something to which they’ve been conditioned to fear. Other

People who work on Wall Street generally feel uncomfortable around me because they can’t understand what guides my actions. I'm not in favour of speculating on financial products or commodities for the

I was talking on the phone to a friend earlier and he was telling me about how he was robbed several times back when he lived in Manhattan. One time, the burglers took absolutely everything - including

(I once wrote an open letter to Russell Brand about why he shouldn't advocate against voting in political elections. I can't say for certain that he read it, but he's changed his opinion since then, so

In the event of a major financial crisis, would it be possible for the national government to bail out the public instead of bailing out banks? Well, yes and no. If the banks are in trouble because too

You may be wondering why it's so expensive to receive a college education in countries like Australia and the United States. Or maybe not - a lot of people have accepted that this is just the way things

This video explains a very simple solution to ending unemployment which has worked before. The MMT Job Guarantee program creates jobs for anyone who wants one, is funded by the national government and

This is my entry for a competition being run by @swissclive to write a fiction in less than 300 words. What The Crowd Thought Was A Good Idea Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Matilda who

It's like something from an HP Lovecraft story - The Old Ones emerge from their slumber to claim dominion over the Earth, leaving mankind doomed! Except in this case, it's possibly Steemit that's facing

My wife and I got married in 2006. That's us in the photo, on our honeymoon in Fiji. The picture says almost everything. Have you ever seen a musical comedy called "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now

Warning - the information contained herein may make your blood boil. Keep a cold drink next to you, just in case. When people think of the causes of unemployment, they may think it's because machines are

I first heard of what Colin Sydes was doing here on the Steemit blogging platform a few days ago. In a nutshell, anyone who upvotes, comments or resteems the posts he makes on @sydesjokes receives a dividend

The chances are that you haven't heard anyone say what I'm about to say. In fact, I imagine that you've heard the polar opposite quite a few times. I'm not against UBI. If you want it, you can have it.

I've been watching the Steem Bot Tracker over the last week and a half and it's quite distressing to see how many people are losing money to the bots. I took a deeper look over the last 24 hours and things

I've done the Ancestry DNA thing and have traced my family back hundreds of years. It turns out that I come from a long line of people who couldn't read or write, which explains a lot. I've learned pieces

I made a post yesterday about how it's possible to lose money by using bots on Steemit. Today, I'm going to expand on it a little. First of all, let's mention the bots who give refunds if you make an invalid

The failure of central bankers to understand the fundamental concept that I'm about to explain in the most simple and unbelievably entertaining way ever devised is one of the root causes for many of the