The future of cash, finance, economics, and trade
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The Nanny Diaries of My Immigrant Mother
Immigrants lose their worth the minute they board a plane. Women like my mother, who was not professionally skilled in her country of origin, become pre-marked for domestic labor in flight.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/8548a-19m-yanahpej0lcgpe-w-rg.jpeg)
For Unbanked Populations, the Future of Banking Is Pocket-Size
A dispatch from the streets of Myanmar.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/925be-1vmjga5c91wigbmmewaoxxg.png)
The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past
Want to disrupt finance? Start here.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/5c1c5-1r3oyztidis7ttjky39ozyg.png)
U.S. Debt Is Massive and Other Countries Are Desperate to Keep It That Way
The global financial system relies on massive amounts of perpetual national debt–and that’s OK.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/416c1-12mdo7qfwzkqzoytoxwhx9q.png)
Your Money, Explained in GIFs
Where it comes from, who creates it, what inflation is, and how much there is on Earth.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cb63f-1z46el_q8qps6ljivajuu0g.png)
Who Will Invent the Money of Tomorrow?
Forget a global currency–we’ll see more types of digital cash than there are nations.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/a97c2-1ovrbxkbsokrfjgj0efielg.jpeg)
Why Aren’t We Teaching Math for the Real World?
Math is still important, but we have the priorities wrong in the current framework.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/05c01-1wecqnqoivjz7ju1i8kllua.jpeg)
How to Smuggle Money into North Korea
“It takes 20 minutes to get cash into the hands of a North Korean,” said Jieun Baek, a fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Author of the forthcoming book North Korea’s Hidden Revolution, she estimates that somewhere between $12 to $20 million is transferred into the country annually from defectors […]![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/5cd91-1vteef5rvlk0bqxdkhiqmla.jpeg)
What We Can Learn About Happiness From Economics
They say money makes you happy–but, well, does it?![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/272f8-1hiqaxv9fvlim5llh640l5w.png)
A Global War Against Dirty Money the U.S. Won’t Join
The securest money is plastic cash–for now.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f9992-1d8awmli4ybn7hbakpstncq.jpeg)
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
How to create new currency in failed states.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/471e0-18c4grjrm7rnlk_oqeaiygw.png)
We Need to Radically Rethink GDP
Are our economies slowing, or are we just measuring the wrong things?![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/aa5b0-1p-n2hie2hs_6wszaudhe5w.png)
GDP Sucks–Here Are Some Better Alternatives
Gross Domestic Product is the scourge of the modern world–we can do much better.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/5691f-1pctwia70vqe3z0yxojzioa.jpeg)
That Money is Funny
Five of the world’s most unusual forms of currency.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3242e-1rcfocant7jud9tcbxpzkka.jpeg)
Made of Money: A Reading List
A crash course in the future of cash, finance, economics, and trade.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/9fb5d-1vdqrwqt1kpa3hoelxsntda.jpeg)
Maximum Wage: Your Response
Your thoughts on the idea that countries should introduce a maximum wage, pinned relative to earnings of the poorest.![](https://www.howwegettonext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ff899-1pxbzx1gu_vz03dp8hywbbg.jpeg)