Links for April 2022

Links for April 2022

Interesting outsider's take [from a British-born former hedge fund manager] on mortgages: https://www.netinterest.co/p/financing-the-american-home

How to work less than 40 hours per week: https://goodmoneygoodlife.com/how-to-work-less-than-40-hours-a-week/

What this guy learned from getting fired: https://www.andrewlynch.net/blog/how-i-got-fired-from-my-dream-job-and-what-i-learned

A series about college enrollment:

1. Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/13/fall-college-enrollment/
2. NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/crisis-looming-u-s-colleges-not-just-because-pandemic-n1235338
3. And further analysis by the Hechinger Report: https://hechingerreport.org/how-higher-educations-own-choices-left-it-vulnerable-to-the-pandemic-crisis/
4. A level-headed take from EducationNext: https://www.educationnext.org/the-upside-of-the-downward-trend-in-college-enrollment/

Does the national debt matter? A thorough overview from Lyn Alden: https://www.lynalden.com/does-the-national-debt-matter/

Thinking about buying some crypto? Read this first: https://news.coincu.com/70841-jake-pauls-crypto-scams-worth-2-2-million/

    Unfortunately, scams are common when it comes to crypto. That's one of the important reasons why I don't personally own any cryptocurrency, at least not yet.

What is money? The answer is surprisingly complicated: https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/

Ready for a lesson in economic history? https://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm

    The good stuff starts at paragraph 30, but the whole thing is worth reading.