So unhappy together.
It’s crisis time, and America is looking for someone to blame. Who better to place on the chopping block than Alan Greenspan? Congressmen and Senators who once asked the former Fed Chairman for advice and called him a market “guru” were trying to fault him as much as possible this week for the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Consumerism’
Greed and You and Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Consumerism, money on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Buy More Junk; Keep Your Debt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Consumerism on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The average individual credit card debt in this country is roughly $9,000. The average rebate check that the economic stimulus package will send out to individuals (around May) will be in the hundreds. Pundits speak with straight faces on how unfortunate it will be if people save their rebate checks or use them to pay [...]
Material vs. Personal Desires
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Consumerism on December 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
For the latest issue of the magazine I edit for, I did a small project that involved asking people what one thing they would want for Christmas if money and practicality were no object. There were one or two creative answers – such as one involving riding a pink mechanical pony through the streets of [...]
