In the book Your Money and Your Brain, author Jason Zweig explained: “In 1957, the average American earned about $10,000 (adjusted for inflation) and lived without a dishwasher, clothes dryer, television. or air conditioner. But 35% of people surveyed said they were “very happy” with their lives. By 2004, personal income had nearly tripled after [...]

Bea Johnson, author of The Zero Waste Home blog, was a successful artist who owned lots of art materials and supplies with multiple pieces in art galleries. But she was also feeling frustrated by a recent lack of creativity. When she moved homes, she left behind a lot of the art supplies, and in her [...]

 America has a saving problem. Our national saving rate in 2009 was negative 1.7 percent. Last year it was 0.1 percent. This year it’s running at 0.6 percent. You have to go back to the early 1930s to find saving rates this low. In the fifties and sixties Americans saved roughly 14 percent of national [...]