Christian Baaki

Silver now trades at ~65:1 to gold despite being only 8x rarer above ground.

If 1,000 people are willing to pay $30–$100 a year for clarity, the business works.

Over time, many founder stop making single bets and start building portfolios. Multiple small tools in adjacent niches. Some resonate. Some don’t. The learning compounds. Judgment sharpens. Distribution strengthens.

Large organizations still excel at scale and

The publicly held federal debt, hovering near 100 percent of GDP, has reached heights last seen at the end of World War II. Unlike fighting back against totalitarianism, today’s debt finances political convenience, short-term gratification, and avoidance of responsibility. Congress borrows because borrowing is easy, popular, and largely invisible

Trillions in new money, 9 percent inflation, or a 8 percent rise in nominal GDP tells us nothing about who received the new dollars first, whose assets inflated earliest, or who was left holding the bag of devalued cash. By aggregating away the order of receipt, these metrics reduce one of the largest wealth transfers in modern history to a “macro

The Civil War foisted upon the country the elimination of Jacksonian hard money: the greenbacks established government fiat paper, which it took 14 long years to tame; and the National Bank Act ended the separation of government from banking, effectively quasi-nationalizing and regulating the banking system, and creating an engine of governmentally

Since increased thrift-financed investments, improvements in technologies and skills, and increased quantities of natural resources relative to the number of workers make outputs more affordable, we can immediately infer from Rothbard’s analysis that to improve affordability, government needs to stop discouraging private thrift and investment, stop

One of the most important predictors of how well a child will learn to read is the size and quality of his spoken language and vocabulary, and children are more likely to be exposed to new words and their meanings or pick up grammar rules from reading aloud with adults.

So much of what we call reading comprehension failure is basically disguised vocabulary failure. Struggling kids don't need to be taught to "find the main idea", they need to be taught more words. And explicitly.

Reading Marzano's book on vocab and I'm fascinated by this table. Look at the jump from grade 2 to 3!! There is a vocabulary avalanche in

Baby Boomers enjoyed a system where there were four workers for every retiree to support; today that figure is well on its way to two workers per retiree. Those two workers are supporting Medicare not just with their taxes but also with the massive, growing federal debt that they will eventually need to pay down once the Boomers are long gone.