Money


Second Degree

Second Degree

"People who graduated fin the late 1990s thought of themselves as proto-managers. If they didn't do well, the onus was on them.

Repressed Memories

Repressed Memories

Why the macro-econ dweebs are freaked out about Trump’s off-the-rack Fed nominee.

Milken It

Milken It

The destablizing math (and language) of hereditary elitism.

Self-Picking Scabs

Self-Picking Scabs

Traitorous members of the professional class are derailing a negotiation.

Curvaceous Utility

Curvaceous Utility

What we talk about when we talk about a dollar.

Making Partner(s)

Making Partner(s)

Why trad-ness is an emergent property of high-income partnerships.

Middling Fictions

Middling Fictions

What the press gets wrong about economic hardship.

Rainbow Roadies

Rainbow Roadies

We’re all playing the game. Shouldn’t it be fun?

Price Discoveries

Price Discoveries

Why auctions feels better.

Bad Circulation

Bad Circulation

What can we learn from successful mediocrity?

Measured Tones

Measured Tones

Why econospeak makes clowns of us all.

Plan-Do Attitude

Plan-Do Attitude

Financially speaking, we've got systems not convictions.

Bullshit Gifts

Bullshit Gifts

'Tis a gift to keep it simple. 'Tis a gift to keep it free. 'Tis a gift to ignore whatever you want from me.

Financial Whoopsies

Financial Whoopsies

Having money doesn't mean that you're good with it.

Diet Nepotism

Diet Nepotism

Most of us get a leg up. But that's not really the thing that matters.

Task Masters

Task Masters

There’s been a professional prestige inversion and it makes it hard to talk about what we do all day.

Relative Riches

Relative Riches

The only thing better than having money is having more money than your friends. Or yourself a few years ago. The problem? Eventually this self is yourself a few years ago.

Rampant Aristocratization

Rampant Aristocratization

Lots of people worry about gentrification, but no one has ever drowned in the first wave. It's the second one that gets you (rich).



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