Business & Economics

Just some thoughts on what the future could hold if the AI pace continues. At the moment it seems a bit bleak but that could all change in an instant.

Photo by Dulana Kodithuwakku on Unsplash I’m reading through The Poverty of Nations by Wayne Grudem and Barry Asmus. I’m trying to understand how to solve poverty and how to best help the poor. This book is written to address the causes of poverty at the national level. It’s not exactly what I was looking for but it is close. Wayne Grudem and Barry Asmus are Christians with exceptional contributions to the topics of theology and economics respectively. ...

These are my personal notes from reading a book provided free of charge, for download, by Nathan Lewis of NewWorldEconomics.com He suggests that creating a wealthy nation, enriching the people and bringing a whole host of benefits beyond just wealth lies in two essential criteria. A low tax rate and a stable currency. What follows are a series of summaries of either his thoughts or my thoughts about his thoughts. I do not always differentiate between the two. Please comment below to share your thoughts on this topic. ...

Was God a capitalist or was He a socialist? Actually, these terms were coined much much later, many years after God had described the system of Government and Laws that He wanted the Israelites to abide by. But by studying the Laws, can we fit God into one of our modern boxes? Here’s the problem. The lack of boxes, we humans have a tendency to place people into boxes to help us understand them. But doing so invariably means that we do not truly understand them, to do that would require much more of a conversation, more so than we are often willing to engage in. ...

During my recent trip to Uganda I was able to visit some of the villages away from the towns. The state of the housing is as you see in the image above. They are built with bricks but they are very small and not very durable. I’ve known for a while about the possibility of building houses from earth and from discarded materials. I even had the desire to build such a house for myself. I started to wonder if such a house could be constructed in these villages. ...