Financial columnist Barry Ritholtz authored a great tongue-in-cheek column in Friday’s Washington Post on how to ruin your financial life. If you faithfully adhere to his bizarro-world “guidelines” over your lifetime, you will likely die miserable and broke. The only “guideline” I have a problem with, though, is the one regarding our country’s safety net …
One part of me really appreciates government. Without government, it would be impossible to justly restrain our wolfen nature (due process for the accused doesn’t happen naturally), and it would be difficult if not impossible to provide a number of vital goods and services (roads, courts, environmental regulations, and national defense don’t happen naturally). And …
Today I came across an article that didn’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling for Uber. Here’s the title of the article. The threat Uber poses to competition and productive capitalism How does Uber pose a threat to competition in the cab industry? What competition was there in the cab industry before Uber and Lyft came …
The goal of any self-respecting freedomist is to free himself or herself from the tyranny of financial dependency. When you have to work in order to survive, you’re financially dependent. When you don’t have to work, when you only labor because it suits your whim or excites you, you’re financially independent. To achieve financial independence …
A few months back I came across a company called the Lending Club. And from what I read, it struck me as having a very intriguing business model. Here’s how the Lending Club works. Potential borrowers with relatively small loan requirements join the Lending Club (average loan size is $14,553). The Lending Club determines the …