It’s in your food supply. It affects your health. The Fed Chairman does it. Robin Hood did it. Dying people must deal with it. The 1% get their share but so do single Moms. You can find it in merit scholarships. It was behind the Cold War. It pits the old against the young and […]
It’s official. The financial markets have been diagnosed with bipolar disease. Wildly down one day and then up the next (or even during the same day). Everyone wants to know whether consumers will have the confidence to keep buying anything and everything they can find. One day it seems we will keep buying and buying […]
In Part I, we compared the body and the economy as integrated systems where everything affects and is related to each other. This means that economists and physicians have to understand their field from a holistic point of view. One of the biggest mistakes of the Financial Meltdown of 2008 was the government allowing Lehman […]
If you happened to have checked out the Resources Section of this website, there are a number of ways to check into alternative currencies. I also mention The Future of Money by Bernard Lietar in the Books Section of the Resources tab. You could also start exploring alternative currencies by checking out Thomas Greco’s website […]
Re-imagining Money as a Fair Tender There is a quote by William Faulkner that “History isn’t dead; it’s not even past.” There is a lot of talk that with the U.S. national debt where it is, this unsustainable level will bring the U.S. and its currency down. In this context, I would like to rework […]
A gaggle of articles, blogs, books, and talk shows are honking statistics that show the widening disparity between the super rich and the rest of us. We hear about the increase in poverty, and about our collective lack of healthcare or, for those that do have care, our inability to afford it, among more gloomy […]
Most of us are familiar with the idea that buying and eating locally grown food strengthens our local economies and is healthy for ourselves and the planet. Slow food movements are also a great inspiration for those who want to go local when it comes to money, too. Plenty of places around this country and […]
The holidays are upon us. Are they weighing as heavily on your shoulders as they are on mine? On the one hand it’s supposed to be a time for family and friends to congregate and make merry. On the other, it is a time to give a “gift” back to our economy by spending money. […]