Why Prices Go Up and Almost Never Come Back Down
Inflation slowing does not mean prices falling. The distinction is genuinely confusing and explains a lot of public frustration.
Tag: economics
8 posts
Subscription Fatigue Is Real and the Numbers Show It
Converting products into recurring revenue worked so well that it stopped working. Households are auditing and cancelling.
Is Crypto Mining Still Worth It for an Individual?
For bitcoin, no, and the reasons are structural. For some other networks the arithmetic differs.
What Inflation Actually Is and How It Is Measured
A single number summarising millions of prices, which is why your experience of it differs from the headline.
Bitcoin Mining Economics After Repeated Halvings
The block reward halves every four years. What happens to network security when it approaches zero is an open question.
Basic Income Trials: What They Found and What They Could Not
Dozens of experiments have paid people unconditionally. The results are consistent and limited in what they can prove.
Asteroid Mining: The Numbers That Kill the Business Case
The resources are real and the arithmetic does not work. Here is what would have to change.
Manufacturing Is Coming Back, Just Not the Jobs
Reshoring is real and driven by supply chain risk. The employment it creates is a fraction of what left.