Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has written Thriving on Less: Simplifying in a Tough Ecomony, as a companion Ebook to his The Power of Less. I think the timing of this book is very appropriate to the coming new year. After a recession that has already lasted over a year and is showing no signs […]
The automakers decided to travel by car to Washington this week to beg for their handout. That’s much better than the mode of travel used a couple weeks ago when they arrogantly flew in by private jet. That sent the message that they expected us to buy one of their cars for our traveling, but […]
So, where has everyone been? I just now received a breaking news alert from the New York Times. It seems as if investors had no clue that our economy is going down the tubes and that we are in a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 679.95 points or 7.7 percent today as the announcement came […]
I just received a news alert from The New York Times. We have been in a recession since December, 2007. I wonder what made it so difficult that it took a year for this group of economists to finally decide that. I don’t suppose it was because the government wanted to keep us in the dark about […]
This is the year when the economy has slapped us all in the face. Right in time for Christmas. Maybe this is the time to get our attention centered on the birth of the Messiah instead of the cavorting of the crowds. Do we really need Santa Claus? Maybe we need to center our gifts […]