How to Thrive in the Recession
Published April 3, 2009
Re-use your tampons. Take up counterfeiting. Send your kids out as chimney-sweeps or child soldiers.
You can thrive when the economy doesn’t!
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Not Buying It Redux: Brian Lehrer Live
Published March 20, 2009
I had an interesting conversation with WNYC radio’s Brian Lehrer the other night on his TV show. Among other things, we chatted about my recent Salon.com piece, The Case Against Thrift, and about how life has changed since Paul’s and my blithe self-imposed parsimony of 2004. I’m still thinking about that piece, and why I’m [...]
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Greed Pays
Published March 5, 2009
Suddenly we’ve noticed that John Thain’s $35,000 commode was flushing directly in our faces.
But our affections for the exorbitantly successful have waxed and waned.