About ten years ago I read an interesting article about the problems the Yen was facing and its pending demise. Written by a well know investor advisor. I took the plunge and placed a 3X Yen short position and waited, and waited, and waited, and finally decided that the yen…

Whoops, my bad…failed to complete this article & it got published before completing. For a nation that prides itself on capitalism, why pray tell, are banks and automakers bailed out — -systemic risk is a lame excuse for the power these entities hold over both the political and monetary systems…

What can one person give another that is worthy of reciprocity? To me, it is a sense of belonging or being connected with something greater than ourselves but with personal or direct feedback — it's metaphysical, a sense of ownership in a continuous form, residing, in some sense, abstract or…

Size 5: Functionality and Small-Scale Economies for Intentional Living — One Mundito, aka One Small World In the previous two articles, we discussed if size matters and an overview of one physical option of Intentional Living based on a five-unit complex — - of five townhome-like units with a common core of 425 sq ft that is accessible on the second level by all independent units…

Size 5: A look at the Physical & Operational Characteristics for Intentional Living In a short Intro to social scale or size we found that units (single/family) can function well at a size 5: N x (N-1)/2 or a total of ten unique direct interactions, This article looks at a physical design that would achieve this while allowing for as much flexibility of…

Smith and those that followed got it right, the division of labor does, in most cases, advance output. The downside to this remarkable insight results in not only more goods and services but the concentration of capital and, unfortunately, greater social isolation or a higher fragmented social order. We have…