In Muhammad Yunus’ book, Banker to the Poor, the journey he takes from starting up his own crediting agency to institutionalising a new bank in Bangladesh is an inspiring one. There are a heap of things that could be said about this whole story, but I just want to focus in this article about the [...]
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I’d like to introduce you to the term ‘understatement’:
We are in very uncertain economic times.
So what’s new? What is new, is how you should handle your finances/money/wealth. Anyone who hasn’t been an adult during a depression will hopefully have realised by now that anything they have experienced up until this point will not have prepared [...]
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I’ll attempt to tie-up my previous musings on Money as Debt with this article. Hopefully these are neither over-simplified as to be patronizing, nor so abstract as to be irrelevent. I believe the issues here are very important, and at the very least we should understand how money works and thereby have a context for [...]
If you read the title of this post and you have no idea how the money in your pocket is actually debt, you are not alone.
Yet, in my opinion, it is possibly the single largest influence on your life, your health, your wealth and your future. The principles that underly this fact are so tightly [...]