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Oct
27
A businessman faces a giant chart where a white arrow with a dollar sign climbs and a gray arrow labeled Growth falls, crossing to show stagflation: rising prices, slowing growth.

What Is Stagflation? Definition, Causes and 1970s Example

Stagflation pairs rising prices with slowing growth and higher unemployment. Its causes, the 1970s oil shocks, and how the Volcker Fed broke it.
10 min read
Oct
27
A bicycle pump inflates a giant balloon printed like a banknote until it starts to split, next to a small normal balloon, showing hyperinflation beside ordinary inflation.

Hyperinflation: Causes and Examples From Weimar to Zimbabwe

Prices rising over 50% a month: how hyperinflation hit Weimar Germany, Hungary, and Zimbabwe, what causes it, and how each episode ended.
10 min read
Oct
22
Isometric line art of a data center with its roof cut away to show rows of server racks, fed by a substation and a glowing power line, with rooftop cooling units and a fiber conduit below.

How to Invest in Data Centers: Stocks, REITs, or Direct

Seven ways to invest in data centers, from REITs and ETFs to direct sites and hosted hardware, and why power decides which projects get built.
12 min read
Oct
22
Isometric line art of a bank vault with nearly empty shelves and one glowing stack of cash, while banknotes flow out to a house, a car and a storefront as loans.

Fractional Reserve Banking Explained: How Banks Create Money

Banks hold a fraction of deposits and create money when they lend. Here's the textbook model, the 0% US reserve rule, and how Bitcoin differs.
11 min read
Oct
16
A printing press pushing out a glowing orange sheet of new bills, beside two hands passing a stack of existing bills

Would UBI Cause Inflation? It Depends on Who Pays

UBI raises prices when it adds money faster than goods and does little when taxes pay for it. The funding math and what stimulus checks show.
12 min read
Oct
14
A chain snaps in a shower of sparks between a stack of gold bars and a paper banknote flying free, showing the end of the dollar’s link to gold in 1971.

What Happened in 1971? The Nixon Shock and the Gold Standard

What happened in 1971? Nixon ended gold convertibility on August 15. Why he did it, what followed, and what the famous 1971 charts can't prove.
10 min read
Oct
08
An AI processor chip with a glowing orange core sits beside a row of blank price tags that shrink from left to right, showing AI pushing prices down.

AI Deflation: Why Cheaper Everything Collides With Debt

AI keeps making intelligence cheaper, yet prices still rise. Why AI deflation collides with a debt-based system and what it means for Bitcoin.
11 min read
Oct
08
A crane lowers a Bitcoin mining container bearing the Simple Mining logo onto its pad as two workers guide it, shown as line art with an orange glow on the container.

Simple Mining Acquires Sphere 3D's Iowa Bitcoin Mining Site

Simple Mining now owns the 8 MW Iowa site it built for Sphere 3D. Room for about 2,200 miners, and an Iowa platform close to 160 MW.
3 min read
Oct
02
Monthly Bitcoin Report cover for September 2026: a hydro-cooled and an air-cooled Bitcoin miner in white line art flank a rising candlestick chart ending in one glowing orange candle.

September 2026 Bitcoin Market Report: Price, ETF Flows and Mining

September 2026 in one report: Bitcoin up 6.4%, $2.65B of spot ETF inflows, a Fed hike, and what the month paid hosted miners by machine.
11 min read
Sep
30
Robots on an assembly line feed a machine that sends streams of dollar bills to a grid of houses, illustrating AI output paid out as a universal basic income.

Universal Basic Income and AI: Will AI Bring UBI?

AI could displace millions of jobs. Here is what tech leaders, economists and real UBI pilots say about whether AI will bring universal basic income, how it could be funded, and the alternatives on the table.
13 min read