The 1st 20 years of a lion's career are for paying the rent of the next 10 years.


Our generation is now the professors teaching anatomy class from memory for the 20th year in a row, without ever having to worry about having a job.


2 factor authentication was invented because too many of you were using junk email accounts instead of your real email accounts to avoid spam. It has nothing to do with authentication.

https://qz.com/1787281/what-700-years-of-interest-rates-reveal-about-the-global-economy

This paper reads like an MCAT test, with the densest british writing. The mane point is it's not a measurement of inflation but interest earned vs inflation. It was also written by the bank of england, the british version of Trump's re-election fund, the federal reserve. They omit all cases of hyperinflation.

The traditional view that increasing productivity over 800 years led to deflation doesn't apply to real interest rates. Real interest rates show how fast currency lost value. At least in the last 100 years, absolute & real interest rates always went down when government borrowing increased.

Starting in the Magna Carta days, governments seemed to be a lot more solvent. Currency lost value faster & faster as governments became more insolvent over 800 years. It may show the natural human desire to lose money in favor of security.