Publications, February

Glad to report that February saw my first publication at the British site CapX – and a very snarky, anti-bitcoin piece at that. A second piece at HumanProgress, where I got to discuss CPI in economic history. Lovely!

For the rest of the month: Stats, Harry Potter, Finance & Environmentalism and, of course, a little bit of crypto towards the end of it. Another decent month.

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CapX: 

• [1] 'No Matter the Facts, Bitcoiners Cling to the Crypto Creed': fiat's average life-span is 27 years? Nop. Bitcoin's volatile exchange rate falls with scale? Nop. Bitcoin a better transfer of value across the globe? Nop. None of these facts matter: crypto enthusiasts maintain their creed: "Facts, truth, reality, or science are archaic ideals unsuited to an era of bitcoin supremacy."
• Re-published, with permission, on Austrian Economics Center.

HumanProgress:

• [2] 'Nineteenth Century Inequality Not As Bad As We Think', echoing Vincent Geloso and Peter Lindert's wonderful paper in Cliometrica "Relative Costs of Living, for richer and poorer, 1688-1914" 

Medium

• [3] 'Three Phases of My Personal Finance Journey', where I outlined Richest Man in Babylon creed - always pay yourself first - and how that advice has led me to where I am today. I also featured a shout-out to two of my greatest (non-fictional!) sources of inspiration: DividendMantra and Lundaluppen. 
• [4] 'Feeling Good, Not Doing Good' a rather vicious piece on environmentalists, fuelled by the excellent John Tierney's "The Perverse Panic over Plastic." Read at your own peril. 
• [5] 'Making a Living as a Freelancer', a comprehensive outline of my earnings, taxes and expenses over the last 6-7 months, where I always compared benefits of this #nomad lifestyle of mine to the next-best option. I included some discussion of what would entice me to give this up and settle for a Regular Job.

Notes On Liberty: (see all my posts here)

• [6] 'The Least Empathic Lot', where I discuss three cool topics: male-female divides, empathy & Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations, and libertarianism!
• Shared and re-published by Rational Review. 
• Cross-posted on the blog Utopia. 

American Institute for Economic Research (all my pieces here)

• [7] 'All Hail Statistics!', a stats-loving piece on a) how empathy can lead us astray, and b) how statistics can help us counteract the very biases and moral mistakes that empathy induce us towards. 
• [8] 'Search Engines Are Better Than Hogwarts', ah! Man, do I love my cheesy pop-culture pieces. Here's another one: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, said Arthur C. Clarke. Mhm. And I'm saying that search engines – those magnificent technologies that allow us unlimited access to the sum total of humanity's knowledge – trumps even the magical world of J.K. Rowling's fictional world. 
• Featured on AIER's daily spoken edition (still weird to hear my words read aloud...)
• Featured on Rational Review.
• Republished on The Libertarian Republic. 
• [9] 'The Implausible Claims of Green High Finance', where I discuss green bonds, central banks supporting the *Green Revolution*, and various fund managers and banks around the world signaling their greenwashing virtue. Next bubble: the ESG bubble!
• Re-published on Capitalism Magazine with the title "Climate Crusades and Green Finance."
• Re-published on RealClearMarkets.
• [10] 'Are All Cryptocurrencies Pyramid Schemes?', a cheeky piece where I make two claims, at least one of which is bound to annoy everyone I know: (1) all cryptocurrencies are pyramid schemes; (2) that's a trivial statement as all moneys, property and valuable items – like pyramid schemes – rely for their value on the ability to offload them later to another person. 
• Re-published at WallStreetWindow. 

Stay tuned and enjoy!