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How Game Economies Quietly Teach the Basics of Credit
Game economies are simplified models of the real thing, and that simplicity is exactly what makes them good teachers.
Business and tycoon games put you in charge of money moving in and out, and in doing so they teach the one concept that sinks more real businesses than any other: cash flow.
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Game economies are simplified models of the real thing, and that simplicity is exactly what makes them good teachers.
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Three people who have sat on different sides of a funding decision: a former underwriter who spent a decade deciding which loan applications got approved, a small business owner who has borrowed through a term loan, two lines of credit, and one merchant cash advance she still warns people about, and a bookkeeper who sees a client's cash flow problems months before the owner does. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not actually dealt with.