Five Euros to Disney

This is all it takes to make a difference Photo by Capricorn song on Unsplash This is all it takes to get to Disneyland Paris by public transportation, from the center of Paris. Five euros. The price of five baguettes, the local bread around here, enough to shelter a family from hunger for another day or two. The... Continue Reading →

The Lottery Ticket

And a moral dilemma in that little brain of mine Photo by Alejandro Garay on Unsplash So I wake up on lottery day, with a weird idea wandering in my sleepy mind, as if speaking to me. “Say you win the lottery today, would you give it all up, all the 154,000,000.00 euros, for no reason whatsoever?”... Continue Reading →

Thou shalt dump daily excrements

Quantity is enough. Follow the quick buck. Photo by Bakhrom Tursunov on Unsplash Brothers.Sisters.Fellow souls in this valley of tears we call Writing.I read to you from an apocryphal gospel according to the self-proclaimed prophets of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Writing. Thou shalt dump daily excrements on the flock of readers for they are not worth... Continue Reading →

Money Out of Thin Air

Promises only bind those who believe them Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash The saying goes like this, Loans create deposits It might not sound like much, but this is how money is actually created. You’d think it would be printed as paper bills by a central bank or minted into coins. Not anymore, to a large extent.... Continue Reading →

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