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Erajah Scypion — Founder, Scypion Finance

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Erajah Scypion

Founder, Scypion Finance

Sourced explanations of money and the economy, written to be read — not completed.

Writing here since 2026
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I got interested in economics the hard way — by not understanding what was happening around me. I'd read an explanation, nod along, and walk away knowing no more than when I started. After enough of that, I stopped looking for the resource I wanted and started writing it.

My background isn't Wall Street. I've spent the last eleven years in the U.S. Navy, and that's where I learned the thing this whole site runs on: any system — a battalion, a budget, an economy — can be understood if someone walks you through the mechanism one step at a time.

The Navy also gave me the three words I hold the work to — honor, courage, commitment. Here they mean every claim traces back to a source you can check yourself, the clear explanation gets chosen over the easy one, and the reader comes before anyone paying the bills.

Scypion Finance is where that work gets published — sourced explanations of money and the economy, written to be read, not completed. There's no course to enroll in and no path to finish. Start wherever your question is.

207articles published
2026writing since

Background

  • U.S. NavyInstructor · Master Training Specialist · Steelworker 1st Class
  • Founder & EditorScypion Finance, since 2026

Areas of focus

Personal financeMacroeconomicsMarkets & investingFinancial literacyEconomic policy

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◆ COMPETITION & MONOPOLY

How Monopolies Form and Survive: The Economics of Market Control

Monopolies aren't born from being biggest — they're built and defended by barriers that keep rivals out. The main ways control forms, and how it's policed.

April 3, 2026·7 min read
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◆ TAX & RETIREMENT

Business Banking and Bookkeeping: The Foundation of Self-Employment

Separate business and personal finances with a dedicated account and simple bookkeeping system to protect liability, simplify taxes, and avoid costly…

April 2, 2026·7 min read
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◆ APPLIED ECONOMICS

Thinking Like an Economist: The Mental Frameworks That Stay With You

You'll forget the equations. What stays is five tools — opportunity cost, marginal thinking, incentives, trade-offs, equilibrium — that improve every decision.

April 2, 2026·9 min read
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◆ COMPETITION & MONOPOLY

Why Competition Drives Economic Profits to Zero — and What That Tells Investors

It sounds like doom: competition pushes profit to zero. The reality is subtler, the math reassuring, and the takeaway reshapes how you judge any business.

April 1, 2026·7 min read
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◆ APPLIED ECONOMICS

Environmental Economics: Pricing the Planet and the Policy Math Behind Climate Action

Carbon is the textbook negative externality. The fix is a price — a carbon tax or cap-and-trade — set against the EPA's $190-per-ton social cost of carbon.

April 1, 2026·8 min read
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◆ TAX & RETIREMENT

Self-Employment Taxes: Calculation, Quarterly Estimates, and the Deductible Portion

How self-employment tax is calculated, when quarterly estimates are due, and how much of SE tax you can deduct from income.

April 1, 2026·6 min read
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