Category: Opportunity Economics

Economics claims to be a scientific discipline that discovers universal laws governing human behavior and market dynamics. This claim is demonstrably false.

This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get tax benefits, but when your smartphone or car loses value through planned obsolescence, you get no protection—forcing you to spend on replacements that generate corporate profits rather than help you build wealth. The essay exposes this $30 trillion asymmetry, then proposes solutions including a Working Family Depreciation Tax Credit and Right to Repair legislation. Rather than pursuing anti-capitalist ideology while authoritarians reshape America, these practical progressive reforms demonstrate how to build better capitalism that expands wealth-building opportunities across society.

This document is your decoder ring for mainstream economics. It reveals 31 hidden assumptions and claims that economists and politicians use to make helpful policies seem impossible. Once you understand how this coded language works, you’ll never be fooled by economic arguments designed to limit what seems possible.

The Analytical Blind Spot: Missing the Religious Framework Trump is a lifelong liar, manipulator and exploiter. This is well-documented by both his opposition and supporters—there’s no mystery here. Yet analysts, including Jay Kuo, keep writing narratives like: “Trump has repeatedly pitched himself as a peace candidate during his political career,” followed by surprise: “But if…

The retreat from federal power is exactly what corporate interests want—here’s how to fight back with systems that actually work Cross-posted to Substack What I Really Think About Community Wealth, Social Enterprise, and Wellbeing Economies I think community wealth building, social enterprise, and wellbeing economies represent some of the most important innovations happening in America…

Everything you think you know about the national debt is probably wrong. Here’s what’s really happening. Today is June 14, 2025, the day when No Kings protests are taking place across the U.S. I thought it would be nice to rework this old post from my blog chevan.info Calling out my own biases: Before I start, let me be…

  Table of Contents Introduction Understanding Our Current Currency System Dollar Pricing in Global Trade Treasury Securities: Managing Banking Reserves Understanding Inflation in a Fiat System Public Money and Private Markets The Purpose of Taxes in a Fiat System Lessons from the Pandemic Response Conclusion References Introduction After publishing my analysis of how Congressional underspending…

Table of Contents Introduction The Birth of Modern Money: From Gold to Fiat Currency The Bretton Woods Era The 1971 Transformation Why This History Matters Conventional Wisdom: Neoclassical Economics and the Persistence of Debt Trap Narratives The Root Cause: Congress Still Budgets Like We’re on the Gold Standard The Real Costs: What Are We Missing…

As I relaunch this blog, I thought it would be both fun and insightful to begin with an exploration of the different schools of economic thought. Economics, as a science and a system for predicting and explaining behavior, has evolved over centuries. Since the 1970s, the United States—and much of the world influenced by its…