I read a piece on The Huffington Post today that got me thinking. In fact, it got me thinking how curious it is that so many well-meaning and relatively intelligent people arrive at such a diversity of curiously faulty ideas and conclusions, even [More...]

One foundational piece of advice here at TAE as been to get out of debt and stay of debt - not only because the monetary costs of such debt will grow, but also because debt can be used as a means of physical repression and enslavement. It gives p [More...]

As someone who plays poker regularly, I'd like to think that I have a good understanding of why luck is i [More...]

These days when I read about Spain I'm wondering more and more how and why it is that the country has any access at all left to international finance markets. The bond auction this week was even sort of bearable, even as yields rose. I'm guessing [More...]

As the U.S. election season kicks into high gear, we are going to hear a lot of people talk about "money in politics". They are usually referring to the fact that corporations, industries and their professional lobbying hacks use campaign donations [More...]

Most politicians, bureaucratic officials, business "leaders", mainstream academics and media pundits in the world are stuck in a single-scale mindset. They approach every problem and issue from the perspective of a human being looking out into an i [More...]