Tag: economy

Podcast on the economy

December 4, 2008 | No comments yet

I was recently interviewed by time4thinkers.com on my spiritual perspective of the economy. “We live in a divine economy!” I told them. A young man making his way in the music industry and a bank examiner working at the Federal

Staying up in a down economy

December 2, 2008 | 2 comments

“The economy is in recession,” economists have officially decided. This is no news to the citizen on the street looking for work and struggling to make payments. Numbers cranked out of Washington D.C. are experienced by everyday people long before

The better bailout

November 21, 2008 | 1 comment

The news is filled with corporations and businesses flooding Washington D.C. with requests for bailouts. The automakers’ plea for $25 billion has been tabled by Congress until December. Congress wants to know what the industrialists would do with the money

A moral-based economy

November 20, 2008 | 7 comments

One of the recent fears voiced by economists is over the drastic drop in consumer spending. This is a bad thing, they contend. Consumers are cutting way back on how many times they eat out. They are delaying major purchases

My Fichus tree and the economy

November 6, 2008 | 5 comments

A week ago, the Fichus tree in my office was shedding leaves by the hundreds every day. It’s a little tree, about 5 feet high, and I started to worry that it was dying. “There weren’t going to be any