Do you remember when it was gospel that the great American consumer engine was driving the world’s economy and when it needed tuning all we had to do was lower interest rates? Why wasn’t it gospel that if we kept on freezing American wages, cutting benefits, exporting jobs and raising the costs of our bungling [...]
Read More...What if in a wink we unpredictable Americans elected not only the smartest candidate we could find in the teeth of dogged racism but also chose at the same time to examine our role as feckless consumers? It’s not a role, after all, we assigned ourselves. It’s rather a role corpocracy imposed on us for [...]
Read More...Have you ever tried to ingest all the things that are supposed to be good for you? You’d have to have the digestive system of a cement mixer to process them. But, if you believe everything you hear, you’ll die sooner than later if you don’t. And that’s just the over-the-counter and homeopathic dilemma. When [...]
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