The silver lining offered by a no-growth economy.

Many people with whom I speak are somewhere between scared and terrified about the economic meltdown. They are wondering how it would be possible to get by with less. Their budgets are already at bare bones. It’s long past time to start considering, in detail, how we can deal with…

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Where are we getting all of that money that is saving us from our massive debts?

I see that there continue to be many new commitments to pour huge amounts of government money into the economy, most recently, by spending hundreds of billions of dollars to purchase stock in private banks. It's amazing to me that no politician is willing to talk about how we're going…

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