Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
11 October 2008

Hoist by their own petard?

›
The confusion over where exactly money comes from seems so widely shared that I wonder whether it is a conspiracy of silence, a conspiracy o...
8 August 2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and Accounting

›
I spent a small but significant amount of time yesterday searching for a cost code to justify the spending of 60 pence. I mention this partl...
3 comments:
19 June 2007

There's No Way Like the American Way

›
I spent a small but significant amount of time yesterday searching for a cost code to justify the spending of 60 pence. I mention this partl...
3 comments:
24 April 2007

Out of sight but not out of mind

›
Just as most economic activity is now negative rather than positive, so most of the economic value of the economy is debt rather than credit...
3 April 2007

House price boom: who benefits?

›
As with the public debt, private debts also enable those who lend money for interest to extract money from those who are forced to borrow i...
2 comments:
24 January 2007

Bank money: source of debt and destruction

›
A bank charter is literally a licence to print money. Since the system of requiring a certain proportion of assets to be kept on reserve has...
4 comments:
6 January 2007

Thinking about money

›
Money is one of the most marginalised issues of our time. Most people never ask themselves or others questions about where money comes from,...
2 comments:
8 December 2006

Inequality is bad for your health

›
A recent report from the UN University shows that, on a global basis, the richest 2% of people in the world own half of the world’s wealth. ...
2 comments: