I used to run a few miles every morning. On the rare days I didn’t run, I swam laps, played tennis, hiked in the woods, or went on a bike ride. And I owned a library of yoga and pilates DVDs. These days I hardly even think about exercise, and the tennis rackets and workout…
When you type the phrase “American consumers” into Google, you get 976,000 results. That two-word phrase is mentioned 1,494 times in Google News stories just today. I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of hearing about American consumers. I’m all for supporting farmers, booksellers, manufacturers, craftsmen, bakers, and artisans with my dollars…
These are just a few of the headlines that blared off Google’s News feed last week: “World economy to shrink by 1-2 percent in 2009” “Unemployment rises in 99.7 percent of metro areas” “Rescuing the Economy Just Got Harder”. Pass the St. John’s wort, please. It’s hard not to despair about the state of the…