About Economy Explorer
For those who prefer their numbers useful — and their expeditions amusing.
Economy Explorer is a collection of financial instruments, curious calculators and rather useful contraptions for navigating money, property, business, investments and the expensive little complications of everyday life.
Built for curious minds with better things to do than wrestle with spreadsheets, it exists to make useful numbers easier to reach, interesting questions more entertaining to explore and financial life, wherever possible, considerably more amusing.
What We Do
Fine instruments for people with interesting decisions to make.
There is no shortage of financial information in the world. There is, however, a regrettable shortage of financial information one might actually enjoy using.
Economy Explorer was created to improve the situation.
Here, questions are turned into instruments: calculators for comparing possibilities, tools for investigating opportunities and curious little devices for examining everything from investments and property to business, technology, lifestyle and the occasional extravagance.
Some may help with serious decisions. Others may simply settle an argument over dinner.
Both seem perfectly worthwhile.
What you'll find here
A growing cabinet of instruments for the financially curious.
Useful Instruments
Calculators designed to answer worthwhile questions quickly, clearly and without requiring an afternoon with an accountant.
Curious Contraptions
Not every question involving money must be terribly serious. Some tools exist because the answer is useful. Others because knowing it would be delightful.
Ten Territories
Money Basics, Spending, Banking & Credit Cards, Investments, Real Estate, Money Psychology, Business & Technology, Lifestyle, Facts & Money and Legacy. A respectable amount of territory — and we have only just begun.
Our Philosophy
Money is serious. There is no reason we must be.
Economy Explorer has little ambition to resemble a bank, brokerage, financial newspaper or solemn gentleman explaining compound interest beside a pie chart.
The ambition is rather different.
To create genuinely useful instruments. To explore questions worth asking. To make complicated things pleasantly understandable. And, whenever possible, to send the visitor away knowing something useful and having enjoyed the expedition.
Good humour is not an afterthought here. It is part of the point.
Finance already has quite enough warnings, jargon, grey suits and grave expressions. Economy Explorer prefers curiosity, wit and a well-made instrument.
One should be allowed to manage one's affairs without looking miserable about it.
A Small but Necessary Formality
Economy Explorer provides informational and educational tools and content, not personalized financial, investment, legal or tax advice.
Even the finest explorer knows when to consult the appropriate professional.