About

By training, I am a data scientist. By temperament, something closer to a detective who got suspicious of the wrong spreadsheet. I spent years working with data, building models, and doing the sort of careful empirical work that teaches you to trust numbers and distrust narratives. At some point, I turned that skepticism toward economics, specifically toward the monetary system that underpins everything else, and what I found was not reassuring.

The Austrian economists, Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, offered something mainstream economics has never quite managed, an honest account of why prices rise while wages do not, why credit expansions conclude the way they always conclude, and why the authors of monetary policy so reliably absent themselves before the reckoning. A school of thought built on individual action and honest accounting was never going to be popular with the institutions that practice neither.

This site is where I put those ideas to work. I write essays on monetary theory, philosophy, and the broader questions Austrian economics raises about how civilizations flourish or quietly decay. I also build tools such as calculators, dashboards, and interactive applications that bring economic thinking out of the abstract and into something you can use. The work extends to YouTube and Nostr, where I analyze and visualize the data that conventional commentary prefers to summarize with hand-waving. Good arguments deserve good evidence, and good evidence deserves better charts than the ones central banks publish.