Do you like the beach? Illustration: Sergey Demushkin. Source: The Noun Project. CC0. Last week my wife and I went to Outer Cape Cod. It was lovely: bright sun, cool water, seals and gulls and cormorants to entertain us as the tide gradually went out. Most [...]

Is inflation about to take off? Illustration: OpenClipart-Vectors. Source: Pixabay A little historical perspective is instructive. In April 1942, the United States Treasury Department asked the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates at a low level: 0.38% for 3-month T-bills, and 2.5% for long-term Treasury Bonds. [...]

How safe is crypto? Source: Clipart Library The crypto universe began in 2008 when someone writing under the pen-name Satoshi Nakomoto – the ironic Japanese translation of “Central Intelligence” – published a white paper entitled: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The author sent it to [...]