The Role of Oil in Global Politics and Conflicts
Where does money actually come from? Understand how commercial banks create money through lending, how central banks control the money supply, and...
June 2024
December 2023
Why Smart People Make Irrational Financial Choices
Smart people make terrible financial decisions all the time. Behavioral economics explains the cognitive biases — loss aversion, present bias,...
November 2023
Wealth Mindset: How the Wealthy Think Differently
Research-backed analysis of wealth mindset differences: how high-net-worth individuals actually think about money, risk, time, and opportunity —...
Understanding Financial Decision-Making Through Psychology
Why smart people make bad financial decisions, and what behavioral economics, psychology, and decades of research reveal about how to think about...
October 2023
Why Money Can't Buy Happiness (But It Helps)
The Kahneman-Deaton $75k study and Killingsworth's 2021 revision reshaped how we think about income and wellbeing.
August 2023
Explaining Compound Interest: Key Concepts
Understand how compound interest works, including the formula, the Rule of 72, real examples over 10 to 30 years, and why starting early makes an...
December 2022
Inflation Psychology: Behavior in Times of Price Increase
How inflation changes behavior, expectations, and trust — covering money illusion, panic buying, wage-price spirals, and the self-fulfilling...
What Is Money? Exploring Currency, Credit, and Trust
Money is one of humanity's most consequential inventions. This guide covers the history of money from Mesopotamian clay tablets to cryptocurrency,...
November 2022
What Is Debt: Good Debt vs Bad Debt Explained
Not all debt is equal. Understand how interest works, what separates good debt from bad debt, and when borrowing is a tool vs a trap.