Conceptric

The archives for economics

  1. Greed and the path to independence

    I’ve just watched a Bloomberg piece on the sequel to “Wall Street” and the “Greed is Good” culture that surrounded it. They interviewed a number of the leading characters of the real Wall Street at the time, and most called the prolonged Bull market of the ’80s and exciting time. I was too young to [...]

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  2. Encouraging waste

    I’m trying to renovate my bathroom at the moment, it’s looking and feeling a bit run down. I don’t want to replace everything, just those parts that are beyond repair, so that I’m not needlessly adding to landfill. Who’d have thought it would be so hard on my wallet and my time?

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  3. Capitalism is Boom and Bust

    Governments always promise to move away from the bad old days of boom and bust, but never seem to delivery. It made me wonder whether it’s actually a bad thing at all, or just systemic to our way of life.

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