Growth

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Account photo of a luxury cruise ship sailing in the open sea at sunset
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Gale Pooley
March 11, 2025
Growth
4

Cruise Ship Billionaires

Gale Pooley
March 11, 2025
Growth
4
Adjusted for inflation, the Icon of the Seas cost 55 times more to build than the Mardi Gras but passengers pay 23 percent less to enjoy. How is this possible? Two words: people and knowledge. More people create larger markets. With a larger market, projects that require a high development or fixed cost become feasible because you can now spread these costs over lots more customers. Read More ›
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copper ore
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Gale Pooley
January 27, 2025
Growth
3

The Abundance of the Five Metals in the Simon-Ehrlich Bet

Gale Pooley
January 27, 2025
Growth
3
Between 1900 and 2000, global population grew by 400 percent, from 1.6 billion to 8 billion. During the same period, the production of the five metals soared: chromium increased by an astounding 78,082 percent, copper by 4,062 percent, nickel by 26,918 percent, tin by 226 percent, and tungsten by 4,829 percent. On average, production of these metals rose by an extraordinary 22,823 percent. Read More ›
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Show a visual representation of the time value of money concept, perhaps with an hourglass symbolizing the passage of time and its effect on the value of money.
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Gale Pooley
January 2, 2025
Growth
3

The Right Question Is How Much Time Does It Cost?

Gale Pooley
January 2, 2025
Growth
3
One of the reasons we love money is that it makes trading easier. Everyone will take money in a trade. Much harder to trade for shoes or bread or economics lessons. Pricing things in dollars and cents gives us a quick way to calculate how products relate to each other. But money has a fundamental problem. Read More ›
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Time is money
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Gale Pooley
December 9, 2024
Growth
4

Time Equality is Rapidly Increasing

Gale Pooley
December 9, 2024
Growth
4
Jordan Peterson’s Rule No. 4 says you should “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” Since we each get exactly 24 hours in a day and no one can buy time (otherwise rich people would never die), isn’t it better to compare differences in how we spend our time? Read More ›
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Young woman cycling in the park at sunset
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Gale Pooley
July 24, 2024
Growth
4

Things Used to Cost Less but They Were Much More Expensive

Gale Pooley
July 24, 2024
Growth
4
We buy things with money, but we pay for them with our time. This means there is a money price, which is expressed in dollars and cents, and a time price, which is expressed in hours and minutes. A time price is simply the money price divided by hourly wages. Take, for example, the bicycle. Read More ›
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Round salted cracker cookies in wooden bowl putting on linen and wooden background.
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Gale Pooley
July 9, 2024
Growth
2

Ritz Abundance

Gale Pooley
July 9, 2024
Growth
2
Joseph (Jake) Klein recently wrote a great article about Ritz Crackers. He notes that they were introduced in 1934 at a price of 19 cents for a one pound box. There are around 8.75 crackers per ounce so a 16-ounce box would yield around 140 of the tasty wafers. Ritz outsold every other cracker their first year on the market. Read More ›
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Woman holding strawberries
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Gale Pooley
May 8, 2024
Growth
2

Strawberries In The U.S. Grew 2,755 Percent More Abundant Since 1960

Gale Pooley
May 8, 2024
Growth
2
Researchers at UC Davis have documented the tremendous growth in yields for strawberries in California. Genetic gains from breeding and production advances increased yields by 2,755 percent from the early 1960s. The strawberry joins wheat, rice, and other staple crops of the Green Revolution. Read More ›
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American Dollars in Focus
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Scott S. Powell
April 9, 2024
Growth, Wealth Creation
5

The U.S. Has No Choice but to Undertake Radical Economic Change

Scott S. Powell
April 9, 2024
Growth, Wealth Creation
5
Burdened with $34.5 trillion in national debt that is currently growing by $1 trillion every 100 days, the U.S. economy is headed for disaster. It falls on the next administration to change that trajectory while also introducing policies that increase and broaden economic growth and wealth creation for everyone. Read More ›