Mymoney | making ends meet Tyler Durden's money tips. "Tyler Durden's money tips" first appeared on iafrica.com on 22 March 2010. It is the 8th most read "Financial fitness" article of the past year. Liked it? Get your finances in shape in 2011 - bookmark Do you need help getting out of debt or becoming financially independent? May I suggest renting the movie Fight Club? On the surface Fight Club seems like just another movie glorifying violence or commenting on male angst. Here are seven of my favourite Tyler Durden pearls of wisdom that I believe are words to live by: 1. How hard do you slave away to own your shiny, new car? You think you own your stuff but, really, your stuff owns you. Do you live in a place you hate just because you 'need' your huge salary? Stuff needs fixing, moving, cleaning, packing? 2. You can lose your job in a second. Don't draw your identity from transient, material things for this can only lead to misery and an existential crisis when (not if) you lose it. 3. 4.
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Layard: Books. The Case for Natural Money - George F. Smith - Mises Institute. Studying Jörg Guido Hülsmann's latest book, The Ethics of Money Production, is a vastly enriching experience. After building his case for natural money on the inviolability of an individual's right to his own property, he then shows us how the state has spent the last 400 years usurping this right for the benefit of a privileged few through its protection of fractional-reserve banking. It is the state's insatiable appetite for revenue, he argues, that is the motivation behind the various monetary schemes it imposes on us, which on an international level begins with the classical gold standard and runs through today's paper-money agreements.
Although he doesn't discuss the current economic crisis directly, his observations provide a much-needed correction to government's "do something" approach. In this essay, I will touch on some of Hülsmann's more salient points, beginning with the origin of money. Natural Money versus "Forced Money" Paper Money and the Free Market Paper-Money Fallacies. The Crisis of Credit Visualized - Part 1. Dollar Collapse! Bank Runs! 80's Movie Predicted it! SNL Skit: Don't Buy Stuff You Can't Afford. Wesabe: Get to Know Your Money.