Among the things I learned this week:
* Garden & Gun average subscriber household income is $332k. (Courtesy: WSJ)
* Fifty-eight percent of private market activity (as measured on Nasdaq Private Market) in 2015 was private company stock buybacks. That number was 44 percent in 2014. (Courtesy: WSJ)
* The history of debt and late evolution of money. (Courtesy: David Graeber’s Debt)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Kenya launched a government bond that is available for purchase only through mobile phones. (Courtesy: African Business)
* Among many things in the article, thirty percent of the United States’ federal revenue came from alcohol excise taxes in the early 20th century. (Courtesy: New Yorker)
Among the things I learned this week:
* People love commenting on, mostly IRL, and reading this series of blog posts. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Apple played a significant role in the popularization and death of floppy drives. (Courtesy: Steven Vaughan-Nichols)
* Julian Charriere has an interesting art project in Venice’s Piazza San Marco that involves the coloring of pigeons. Surprisingly, most reports I read don’t bother including a photo. Odd Stuff Magazine (NFI) has a photo with its post on the matter. (Courtesy: NYT)
* There is an annual afro-punk festival in Ft. Greene. It amazes–in good and bad ways–that I only just now learned this. (Courtesy: NYT)
* During the Great Depression, leading US economists proposed the Chicago Plan: separating monetary and credit functions in the banking system and 100 percent backing for deposits. Repeated analysis demonstrates this model would have significant positive affect on the US economy. (Courtesy: IMF)