2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (428+ words) I've been playing some Pokemon Pokopia lately, and when browsing online I came across an article titled "Capitalism is Dead in Pokemon Pokopia, and Tom Nook Isn't Happy About It." The article is a comparison of the economic systems of…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (362+ words) A literal muse today. SimpleStacker unleashed the creative demon within, so here we are. This is my comment to their excellent "meaning-of-capitalism" reflection earlier today (#1457033): It reminded me of an unpublished piece I had gathering digital dust somewhere " congrats, @siggy47, I…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (123+ words) One for stacker professors here, how is bitcoin dealt with in econ courses these days? is it ignored, blasted into shit, Paul Krugman style, or just a little footnote? After so many years, i would at least have thought it…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (152+ words) Historically, food costs have followed the movement of oil prices. This relationship encompasses fertilizers, transportation, energy, and agricultural inputs, all highly sensitive to the price of a barrel of oil. The graph clearly illustrates this dynamic: shocks to Brent crude…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (692+ words) I Think I'm In Love with Money Laundering I've rarely changed my mind on something as much as I did going through these 250-odd pages (and not, from the author's point of view, to the better.). It's the sort of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (305+ words) In the beginning, when I first got into Bitcoin, I didn't realize the depth it carried or how much one's lifestyle changes by embracing it. I had no idea what it would truly bring me. At first glance, this sounds…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (732+ words) I don't know if this is just a social media thing, but I see shorts of people with , for example, a Starbucks and they're ranting about how much it costs. Most recently in my Fb feed, I'm seeing posts from…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (361+ words) Starting October 2025, I began to track some of the items we buy at least a semi-regularly with sats. The idea is to visualize inflation in sats over time. This is the 4th post of the series, documenting how our purchasing power…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1653+ words) I'm of the opinion that the best way to grow bitcoin adoption is to create goods and services that people actually want to buy, and then accept bitcoin for those goods and services. But the key differentiator to what a…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (214+ words) The paper "Kalshi and the Rise of Macro Markets" analyzes the effectiveness of Kalshi's forecasting markets as tools for measuring macroeconomic expectations in real time. It highlights: Unlike surveys, which can quickly become outdated, these markets offer high-frequency data and…...