FIFA World Cup 2022, Beer, and the Metaverse, Through the Lens of 'Market Discounts Everything'

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Then Vs Now: How Banking Has Changed Over Time?

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

An Overview of The Wasted Lands: NFT Heroes & Play-to-Earn Combat

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Money & the Debate of Intrinsic Value

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Here's Why Crypto Taxation is a Good Thing 

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

How many borders are closed for trades due to fear and insecurity?

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

Build to Rent DAO: Pioneering the Concept of 'Rent-to-Earn'

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

Estimating Price Elasticity with Machine Learning 

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

Bitcoin Replacing Offshore Banking

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

Why Crypto: The Gold Standard

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Agrotech: Making Agriculture Easier for Workers

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

Why Your Offshore Dev Team is Failing, and How You Can Fix It

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Explained

There can be no greater error than in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Gold-Backed Tokens - How do they Work?

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

Alan Turing is Now Deservedly on the United Kingdom’s £50 Banknote

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Over 35 Tech Companies Compromised in Novel Software Supply Chain Attack

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The Economics of Social Money: Digital Communities in the Next Decade

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

For the War

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity. 

Universal Basic Income is Here, Like it or Not.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Are Blockchain Transactions Traceable? Why This Matters

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

Private Transactions: Insights to the Design Principles in ZCash and Aleo

The Founder's Choice: Stupid & Unlucky or Lucky & Smart?

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Why governments still don’t use Bitcoin

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

Everybody sells — How to set the right price?

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

Job Mobility Slows Amidst Recession Fears and Tech Layoffs 

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down...

How Tenant Screening Companies Can Use Your Speeding Ticket Against You

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

$200 solar self-sufficiency — without your landlord noticing.

The Problems with Startup Capital Fundraising…

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Why do Government Bodies Treat Crypto the Way They Do?

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

An Open Essay on the U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasuries, Cryptocurrencies and More: Part 2

The Fed's Disastrous Confusion about Money

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

An Open Essay on the U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasuries, Cryptocurrencies and More: Part 1

Has the Fed Given BTC a Death Sentence?

Why The Fed’s Money Machine Makes Tokenized Gold a Good Investment

What Will the Gig Economy be like in 2022?

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The Golden Pig, Prosperity, and the Importance of People

Farming and Its Tech Future

It may be laid down as a principle of universal application, that every man is injured or benefited by the variation of the value of the circulating medium in proportion as his property consists of money, or as the fixed demands on him in money exceed those fixed demands which he may have on others. Thus the farmer is injured by any increase in the value of money... whilst he has a fixed money rent, and fixed money taxes to pay. His produce... will sell for less, whilst his taxes and rent continue the same. ...He, more than any other class of the community, is benefited by the depreciation of money, and injured by the increase of its value.

David Ricardo