Swart Donkey

Conspicuous Consumption is a stupidity tax. As is hoarding. The image of Scrooge McDuck is not one of someone who is good with money.  Peopl...

A Universal Basic Income doesn’t have to be funded through hand-to-mouth tax redistribution. It could be funded by Capital. Paid as a divide...

We live in a world where there aren’t enough jobs, and migration into rich countries is presented as a problem. This isn’t the way the wor...

Hut Taxes were used by the British Colonies to force people out of subsistence lifestyles after the Anglo-Somebody wars. In South Africa, ...

Conspicuous Consumption is a stupidity tax. Conspicuous Consumption is the lavish spending of money for the express purpose of demonstratin...

Many critics of Universal Basic Income focus on the Gross rather than Net cost of proposed funding methods. Gross is simply the size of the...

Framing is everything. It is the context. ' The Endowment Bias ' shows that people are willing to pay less for something that isn...

The first city in Peru is estimated to have been built in around 3,500 BCE at Huaricanga . From about 3,100 - 1,800 BCE, there is ev...

Modern Income Tax  was introduced in 1799 to the United Kingdom to pay for the French Revolutionary War. Nations of 'the People' v ...

I am far more concerned about consumption inequality, and absolute poverty , than I am about wealth or income inequality. Defining goals in...

Fiat money is currency established as money by law. It has value because the government says so. That matters because what the governm...

An interesting or cynical take on the rise of the Welfare State, kicked off amongst others by Bismark , was that it was not out of good spi...

Savers aren't investors. Cash isn't an investment. Saving is when you keep your money in cash. Investing is when your money gets a...

Tax gets complicated in a world beyond borders. Multi-national companies are the new Empires. They have flexible borders, are continually ...

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone surrounds the third largest natural harbour in the world. It has suffered from the 'Resource Curse...