money

  1. 10 July 2020

    Money and time travel

    What is money? Textbooks call it a medium of exchange and a store of value. Both are true — but money is also a time travel device. Borrowing brings future income into the present. Investing and savin…

  2. 24 January 2020

    Don’t yuk yums (financial or otherwise)

    Money is emotional, and rarely talked about candidly — which is a recipe for disaster. Borrowing from the sex-positivity frame: who cares what's "normal"? If someone's spending gives them pleasure, do…

  3. 23 May 2017

    Life isn’t a game of Monopoly. There are many different ways to invest money

    My kids pulled out the Monopoly board recently and it struck me how narrow a view of commerce the game offers — buy property, collect rent, hope for capital gains, win by impoverishing everyone else.…

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