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Author
Peter Biles
Date
October 1, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Business and Finance

Tagged
Beauty, commercialism, Featured, Literature, Lord of the Rings, money, Story, Tolkien, Woke culture}

Tolkien’s for Sale

_{Commercializing the beloved epic fantasy comes at a cost} _{Peter Biles

October 1, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance}

What happens when a beloved fantasy world, once respected and celebrated because it soared above the surrounding fray of decadent literature and art, becomes mainstream? What if the very work that was intended to transcend consumerism becomes the object of mass consumption? Harley J. Sims, writing for MercatorNet, believes Amazon has diluted the characteristic beauty and depth of The Lord of the Rings for the sake of mass consumption and appeal. I’ve shared my own thoughts on the new Rings of Power show in two separate pieces (here and here) for Mind Matters already, but just to recap: the show is interesting and entertaining enough to keep watching, but it’s missing something—a moral and imaginative ingredient Tolkien articulated beautifully in Read More ›

Technical price graph and indicator, red and green candlestick chart on blue theme screen, market volatility, up and down trend. Stock trading, crypto currency background.

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
February 28, 2022

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
data, Data analysis, Gary Smith, Inflation, Jay Cordes, money, Wall Street Journal}

Detecting BS Research: If It Seems Too Good to be True…

_{A recent Wall Street Journal article shows a near-perfect link between inflation and money. But a link that near-perfect raises suspicions} _{Gary Smith

February 28, 2022

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Economics}

Two Johns Hopkins economists recently wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, “Jerome Powell Is Wrong. Printing Money Causes Inflation.” Their argument is that Federal Reserve chair Powell is mistaken in his assertions that there is not a close relationship between money and inflation. As evidence, they offer the chart below, showing that the rate of inflation can be predicted almost perfectly from the rate of increase of M2, a broad measure of money. The authors explain: The theory rests on a simple identity, the equation of exchange, which demonstrates the link between the money supply and inflation: MV=Py, where M is the money supply, V is the velocity of money (the speed at which it circulates relative to total spending), P Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 21, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
ethics, Human value, Instrumental value, Intrinsic value, money}

The Creative Spark

_{An information theory justification for the intrinsic value of human beings} _{Eric Holloway

January 21, 2019

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Ethics, Philosophy of Mind}

Because creativity is unique to humans and irreducible, all human beings have the ability in principle. The fact that a particular human being’s creativity is not in use or is perhaps unusable at present does not mean that that person does not have the ability. Consequently, all humans have at least latent intrinsic instrumental value. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 17, 2018

Categorized
Business and Finance

Tagged
bitcoin, Ethereum, Maria Bustillos, money}

Why Do We Think Money Is Real?

_{It is actually a constantly shifting network of agreements to trust others} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 17, 2018

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Business and Finance}

It is actually a constantly shifting network of agreements to trust others. Maria Bustillos, editor of Ethereum’s culturemag, Popula, asks us to think about just what money is before we make up our minds about Bitcoin.

A Wallet You Can’t Feel?

_{Will Bitcoin change the rituals around money?} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 6, 2018

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Business and Finance}

It’s tempting to assume that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin will succeed because social media did. But digital doesn’t mean magic. Cryptocurrencies will work if the needs met are more significant to most people than the problems created are.