What If Black America Were a Country?

If black America were a nation-state, how would it stack up against other countries? How would it fare on standard measures of national power and weakness?

via What If Black America Were a Country? – The Atlantic.

Are Interest Rates Really That Important?

Nice thought piece on the relevance of interest rates.

This Is Your Brain on Money

A young economist  wrote in 1844, “The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money’s properties are my – the possessor’s – properties and essential powers… I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am  brainless, but money is the  real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless?”

via This Is Your Brain on Money: Why America’s Rich Think Differently Than the Rest of Us | Alternet.