Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money

The impulse to continually ring-fence more assets under the control of a corporate brand name is powerfully felt

bank think of themselves as lending the bank money.

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A powerful experiential learning technique is to run your own small hedge fund.

joker is a powerful subversive figure, pricking bubbles of exclusivity and power by mocking apparently serious authority figures and traditional symbols.

The Rainforest Action Network

It’s an ‘all’s fair in love and war’ mentality, where individuals form loose, short-term bonds of trust against the backdrop of long-term uncertainty.

Thus, the revenues a water company receives are, roughly speaking, positively correlated to inflation.

Playfulness is a characteristic of ownership.

It’s useful to browse the annual report of your favourite global corporation. Their balance sheet represents their accountant’s estimation of all the things the investment vehicle owns, and who gets to claim them.