Over-Consumption and the Bloating of America
My husband and I just took a road trip from here is the San Francisco Bay area up through Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and camped on the way home down the coast. What was remarkable was the amount of obesity we encountered. Some of these encounters were more memorable [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bubble’
Money and Obesity
Concentric Circles of Recession
We Are Not Out of the Falling Bubble Woods Yet.
I heard a joke the other day, that might have been funny if it weren’t so close to the truth.
“The last will and testament of the Icelandic financial sector requested their ashes be spread over Europe”. I loved what my husband’s friend said in response to [...]
The Wall Street Hustle
Opting Out of the Big Bank Fiasco and Moving Toward Self Sufficiency
The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a very good case of it, taking us step by step through the [...]
Money and the Patriarchy
The Challenge to the Old Masculine Mentality
The masculine is what turns the soul outward to affect the world. But in order for it to help us through the global crisis, which is really a wake-up all to humanity, it must escape the defining cultural influences to which it has been subjected for centuries. The forces [...]
Opting Out of Serfdom
Day to Day Living in the New Paradigm
In my last two blogs I talked at length about predatory lending and the debt economy getting us into trouble as a nation and as individuals.
We need to step out of the culture of easy money and magical thinking that allowed Ponzi schemes like Bernie Madoff- but not [...]