This is just a guess, but I wonder how much of the short-sightedness of the American corporate world and instability of the markets is due to the following economics:  publicly traded companies' shareholders demand dividends (or at least short-term upward stock price movement), which means companies pay out a certain a...more

Hard times, these...  College students being forced at gunpoint to take on immense amounts of debt, while driving ancient two-year-old SUVs to the protests, mobilizing their friends by calls and texts via last year's iPhone model and receiving only modest care packages from their parents.  Protestors having to hang out...more

Dear Americans, As I peruse dozens of poorly reasoned arguments (on all sides), uninformed but furious opinions, shakily worded and overly simplistic utterances, and consider the rising paranoia in all classes of our society, I'd like to take a moment to offer the following methods of enriching your life and shifti...more