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  • Tuesday, June 08, 2010

    Focusing on Family

    “The way we become more human is by paying attention to each other,” he said. “It shows how much you care.”  This is the second to last paragraph of yesterday’s New York Times article, ”Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price” but, you may not get to it if you are too ...

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  • Monday, March 01, 2010

    Why America is the Most Depressed Nation on Earth

    It’s kind of incongruous to be the world’s most prosperous nation but also its most depressed. According to the Washington Post America consumes three quarters of the earth’s anti-depressants, with one out of three women popping Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. What makes the phenomenon even ...

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  • Friday, January 08, 2010

    Mortgage Ignominy at JP Morgan Chase

    In the heart of New York City, if you listen closely, you’ll hear a severe sucking sound, as if some magical and invisible vortex is pulling in all that surrounds it. Amazingly, it doesn’t swallow up your scarf, your briefcase, or muss you hair. It does, however, pluck every last ...

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  • Monday, December 28, 2009

    The Alternate-Reality Decade

    If you would have invested one hundred dollars in the stock market in January of 2000, by December of 2009 it would be worth just ninety. This has led some writers to describe the past ten years as the lost decade. I disagree. Loss assumes an unconscious act of forgetfulness. This, by contrast, ...

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