Tag: Julius Caesar

fun facts

The truth about the calendar mishap.

April 25, 2023

Why aren’t SEPTember, OCTOber, NOVember, and DECember the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the year? “The normal version of this story you’ll hear is that this is all Julius Caesar’s fault for ‘adding’ July, but that’s not quite […]

big ideas

Moneyness: dictionary money

July 26, 2020

A short article with a high concentration of new-to-me knowledge. “Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy’s price level, it needn’t issue any actual money—it can just edit the dictionary every morning, announcing […]