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All money is a matter of belief.
–Adam Smith

I know what you’re thinking. This is going to be one of those secret-law-of-attraction-manifesting-type posts.

That’s really only one conjecture of how beliefs create wealth. Even if you don’t believe in any of the New Agey-gooey stuff, the fact is that your beliefs create wealth on different levels.

The first way your beliefs create wealth is on the personal level. Your beliefs affect the way you make money, save money, invest money, and spend money. Those actions together determine how wealth is actualized in your life.

For example, an investor, who believes the world is falling off the edge of a cliff, will immediately act on those beliefs, sell everything he or she has, and be satisfied with the morsels remaining. That one belief determined the wealth of the investor. Since no man or woman is an island, this is just the beginning of the powerful effect beliefs have on the economy.

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There are essentially two schools of economic thought: one is that the individual is the captain of his economic fate; the other says that the winds (dare I say blowhards) of governmental and economic change control the direction of your financial fate.

Both positions have some validity. Many people have made wealth and lost it in divergent economies to make it seem too plausible that the individual has nothing to do with his or her monetary fate. On the other hand, government and business can ferment some pretty big gusts of economic changes.

But, new winds are blowing.

Technology is creating a revolution in your financial power. Moore’s law of ever-increasing computational can put that exponential power in your hands and helps you steer a true course in any economy, at any time and regardless of which empty suit is in power.

This computing power can improve the way you learn, earn, and spend money.

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I’m a big believer in something I call, “Collective Intelligence.”

Collective Intelligence is a kind of “crowd think.” People tend to move in swarms.  (When I’m feeling snarky, I say people tend to move in herds.)

In either case, these crowd movements can offer hints on how society and the economy is moving. According to an article from Kiplinger.com, changes in the nation’s economic climate might be revealed in some weird collective ways.

These are probably indicators you never considered, unless you sell alligator skins. Here are a few weird ways you can check the economic climate:

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When financial distress hits, you notice one thing: people freeze.

The ease of accepting new thoughts and new ideas vanish. They resort to old thinking.

It’s probably a comfort thing. Once you’re stressed, you want to avoid more stress and new situations and new ideas can be uncomfortable and stressful.

We resist risk.

Unfortunately, this is the exact time that you should embrace risk. In the words of Kris Kristofferson by way of Janis Joplin.

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left  to lose.

And, perhaps, when you ain’t got nothing, you got everything to win.

If you feel this way, this is a time for a financial “beginner’s mind.”

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