Within smaller arenas, such as an individual corporation or a government bureaucracy, things operate in a more hierarchical fashion with directives coming from top-down, but as scale increases, one eventually reaches a point where things are mostly getting driven by the command’s preferences rather than by the consumer’s preferences, and where increasing inefficiency prevents things [...]
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Ron Paul’s Farewell Address to Congress
Here is a transcript of Ron Paul’s farewell address to Congress, originally sourced from the Campaign for Liberty. Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals [...]
Betting on the Future President
Have you ever visited Intrade, which brands itself as the leading prediction market? You can make a market in almost anything these days, it seems. Intrade is a prediction market based in the Republic of Ireland, and lets you bet on predictions in all kinds of areas, including the future president of the United States. [...]
Cars Are the Mass-Transit Solution of the Future
As you sit in traffic on your way to work, you might find it hard to believe, but one day, that congested highway will be part of the mass-transit wave of the future. Instead of congested traffic, thousands of cars will be streaming down the lanes at 120km/h+, carrying tens of thousands of commuters to [...]
Why Are Environmentalists Against North American Oil & Gas?
I don’t understand why environmentalists are supporting regimes that are well-known for their corruption and human-rights abuses, like Iran or Venezuela. Mich from Beating the Index had some great thoughts on the matter: “The US oil and gas sector played a part in the job improvement in 2011 by creating 37,000 jobs directly and 111,000 [...]
Your Virtual Office Space of the Future
What do you think your office space of the future will look like? Will you jack yourself into a matrix-like universe, and meet with your colleagues in a virtual space that only exists as a representation inside a computer? Will you put on some VR glasses, and interact with your coworkers in a virtual lobby? [...]
A Frugal Manifesto
I have seen far too much hate for frugality and frugal people these days. I consider myself a frugal person, even though I don’t make my own toilet paper, soap, nor laundry detergent. Does being frugal mean that we all have to go to extremes? Frugal people are all made out to be stupid and [...]
Financial God Joins the Yakezie Challenge!
Dedicated. Motivated. Selflessly helping others. These are the attributes of a Yakezie member, and these are values that I aspire to as well. We need more people to question the status quo, build wealth, and help others at the same time. We share the same goals in common, and I would be very happy to [...]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! It’s now 2012, a new year with promises of change and technological progress; it’s also a year of potential upheaval and future turmoil. We’ve seen the beginnings of real popular unrest with the birth of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, as well as the Arab Spring and popular protests in Europe and [...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from all of us at Financial God! We wish you and your families the best of holidays, and a safe journey through the gathering clouds of 2012.
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