economics

What I've been trying to say

Posted 6 days 7 hours ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

Forest steps

You can choose how you want to live. If you choose to live simply, you gain a certain kind of freedom. In particular, you're free to choose to do the work that's the most satisfying, rather than the most lucrative. Choosing to live simply doesn't mean that you have to give up all the cool stuff you want. It means, rather, that you have to focus on a small number of wants--the ones that matter the most to you.

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The weird logic of economic growth

Posted 15 weeks 4 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Grass sprouting in empty sand

Ever notice that we have names for a period when the economy isn't growing (recession or depression), but there's no name for when it is growing?  If they call it anything, economists and politicians call it a "period of normal growth."

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Common Currency: A Primer

Posted 28 weeks 2 days ago by Jabulani Leffall

Frugal Living

These postings will pertain to the economy of life, which is all about personal alternatives that shape our financial world. Common Currency isn't your father's pesonal finance blog. This is mostly because when your father came of age, Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet but in practice this means that you won’t get me to lying or falsely waxing about the latest, greatest mutual fund.

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Trade versus localization

Posted 38 weeks 6 days ago by Philip Brewer

Lifestyle, Green Living, Food and Drink, Consumer Affairs

Scene at a farmers market

Localization--eating locally grown foods and buying locally produced goods--has become trendy just lately. For the past twenty years, though, globalization has been the dominate force. The tension between trade and localization is not a new one.

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Should George W. Bush write for Wisebread?

Posted 43 weeks 11 hours ago by Paul Michael

Extra Commentary

Bush

I'm not sure how many of you watch the news or read the news blogs on a daily basis. I know I can't, it's way too depressing to do every day. But when I saw that George W. Bush, our President, claimed he was fiscally responsible I almost snorted tea out of my nose and onto my monitor. Fiscally responsible? Seriously?

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Recession Depression

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Personal Finance

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