Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2024

Sports and celebrity (salary and income)

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 Basketball superstar Caitlin Clark recently went pro for a salary of $76,535.  What's going on?  The LA Times has the story of rags and...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Money Laundering

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  Financial regulation plays a big role in law enforcement, by helping investigators to follow the money, which is often easier than followi...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Depreciated currency

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I'm flying home today from Argentina, where I took part in the TTS2022 international transplant conference.   I had to change dollars t...
Monday, May 2, 2022

The search for tennis talent is unraveling

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 It used to be that 11 year old professional tennis players were rare, but it looks like that's not the case any more. The NYT has the s...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Money and repugnance

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  Readers of this blog are already familiar with the association between money and repugnance.  Check out this Saturday Morning Breakfast C...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Ant financial

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When I visited Hangzhou recently I learned a bit about Ant Financial, the offspring of Alibaba and the proprieter of AliPay.  Here's a ...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Usury and theology

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At Aeon, Alex Mayyasi writes about the work of banker turned theologian David Miller: Of money and morals Moneylending has been taboo fo...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Blackmail has something in common with transactions that become repugnant when money is added

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Blackmail isn't what I usually mean when I speak of a repugnant transaction, because it isn't a voluntary transaction that third pa...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Repugnant money in England

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I've written a lot about repugnance and money, but never quite like this. Here's the Telegraph story on some new banknotes: New £5...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Repugnance for money: The Other Paris, by Luc Sante

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Paris is romanticized as the opposite of NY, and poverty as freedom from money, in this review in The Guardian of The Other Paris by Luc S...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Do payments systems like bitcoin change which transactions are treated as repugnant?

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Rod Garratt of the NY Fed and UC Santa Barbara explores the idea that distributed payment systems like Bitcoin might change the manner in w...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Private and public healthcare in Israel

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In Israel, there is disagreement over the right ways to mix publicly funded health care and private insurance. Here's the story from Ha...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

The evolution of eBay

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Once eBay was primarily an auction site...a story by Jeff Himmelman in the NY Times Sunday magazine brings us up to date:  EBay’s Strategy ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Design of bitcoin

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Here's a nice tutorial by Michael Nielsen on some of the main design elements of the market for bitcoins (and other digital currency): ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Counting people as a repugnant transaction

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This week's Torah portion, Ki Tissa (Exodus 30:11-34:35) has some well known parts (the Golden Calf and the civil war that followed when...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Money and medicine in Britain's National Health Service

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The London Times reports NHS bars woman after she saw private doctor "A WOMAN has been denied an operation on the NHS after paying for ...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Informal money transfer networks: "hawala"

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The informal money transfer system known as Hawala (or hundi) is in the news with the arrest of three Pakistani men in New England who are ...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Your penny for my two cents: micropayments on the web

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Even if you are prepared to pay a penny for my thoughts, the transaction costs would likely deter you, unless the payment can be made automa...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

"It's like fishing..." Indoor prostitution in Taiwan and Rhode Island

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Taiwan has begun a process of legalizing prostitution : "Taiwan's cabinet will issue regulations within six months, when new regul...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Queuing to tee up at the Bethpage State Park Black Course

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The USGA 2009 US Open golf tournament begins tomorrow, June 18. The host golf course is the Bethpage State Park Black Course. You have to b...