If you ever get frustrated trying to garden, it is because of economics. Really. Your garden is trying to teach you some important lessons, lessons that can help you vote better, make better decisions in spending, and aid you in teaching your children money and time management. Your garden is trying to expose to you […]
One Mother’s Journey in Discovering Economics: Finance Accounting with the 36 Hour McGraw-Hill Course Book
After accidentally becoming exposed to the true nature of economics a few years ago, I determined to teach my children about this oft neglected subject. We began with Thomas Sowell’s book Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy. I quickly realized why nothing beyond personal budgeting is generally taught in government run schools. […]
Organizing My Bank Account Register and Tracking Cash Flow
Ah, money. Work for it, then spend it on life. Some people try to keep track of the flow of funds, both to have enough to make it until the next influx of cash and to build habits of saving. Others let it slip through their fingers without attempting management. Developing habits to keep track […]
The Pitfalls of Government Subsidized Stock Market Investments
It’s done all the time. A word that you thought you knew the definition to is taken and applied to a certain thing, in order to lull people into feeling warm fuzzies about what is really a power play hostile to freedom. Take the word “public,” for example. What does it mean? We’ve been taught, […]
Is Investment Income from the Stock Market Free Money?
There is no such thing as free money. There may be fake money or stolen money, both of which affect the value of whatever is being used as money. But no money is free. There really is no “free” anything. Someone had to do some work for there to be results. That is the current […]
