The Spiritual Opportunity Of Our Money Pain
I really like this guy , Matt Taibbi, who writes for the Rolling Stone magazine. He again has a great article this month on the continued betrayal of the American people. The article is called “Wall Street Strikes Back” and the table of contents description on Page 5 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Credit Card Debt’
The Rubber Is Meeting The Road
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 [...]
The Future is Now
Are Being Spiritual and Not Debting for the Future Contradictory?
I received this email last week:
“In an excellent post last April on credit card debt, you stated bluntly, ‘Debt steals from the future.’
I’m in full agreement, but I fear this line of reasoning falls on deaf ears to many debt-laden people who’ve imbibed spiritual literature [...]
The Answer To Our Credit Crisis
The Antidote to Greed in the Economic Downturn
In my last post I talked about leaving the chase for more is better and a sense of deprivation which fueled that chase and start living in a sense of sufficiency. I also said this would take a shift in consciousness.
In the November 10 Newsweek, in the Article, [...]
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 [...]
Debt is the New Bondage
Staying Out of Credit Card Debt
As stated in the New Yorker in its April 13, 2009 issue, in the article I.O.U. by Jill Lepore ,”Consumer debt has been the engine of the American economy since the 1970’s and arguably longer”. I would argue not just the American economy, but the whole world consumer driven bubble [...]