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Money As Debt

July 16th, 2008

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist”

Kenneth Boulding

If you want to understand how the global economy got into the mess that it is in, you could do worse than spend 45 minutes of your life re-learning more about how money is created. At the very least, it will remind you of some of the fundamentals you may have learned in Economics classes of old. Be warned, you’ll probably get a distinctly queasy feeling @ about 22 minutes in.

(see Money As Debt site for references)

New word of the day for me: Usury

aehso banks, economy, global, money

Jan Chipchase’s atoms moving around the planet.

March 15th, 2007

I still think that Jan Chipchase has one of the best technology jobs on the planet. His recent blog posts are as thought provoking as ever. Moving Atoms is just great, making me both laugh (at the sight of all those little red cases) and worry about the irony of this type of commercial behaviour.

aehso design, global, tech