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  • IMF Head Muses On the End of Banking, Triumph of Digital Currencies

    IMF Head Muses On the End of Banking, Triumph of Digital Currencies0

    In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.   Christine Lagarde–a Paris native who has held her

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  • How To Ask for a Raise

    How To Ask for a Raise0

    Let’s talk about one of the most stressful aspects of professional life: asking for raises. I’ve been on both sides, asking for raises and being asked for raises. It’s a completely normal part of work life, nothing unusual. And yet people are terrified of the entire topic. It causes tremendous stress. It’s not entirely clear

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  • 9 Books to Understand the Collectivist Right

    9 Books to Understand the Collectivist Right0

    The fast and furious rise of the alt-right in Europe, the UK, and the US has caught many people intellectually off-guard. I can speak for myself in this respect. My education and reading prepared me well to understand the statism of the left. My instincts became finely tuned. The threat to liberty from the right

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  • Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power

    Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power0

    It’s always an occasion of note when Paul Krugman says a true thing. And it has happened. “Given the powers we grant to the president, who in some ways is almost like an elected dictator, giving the office to someone likely to abuse that power invites catastrophe.” Abused power is indeed potentially catastrophic. Perhaps there

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