Faster than a speeding bullet. We used to say that about Superman, but now it refers to the rate of change going on in our culture. Most people think the U.S. economic downturn is solely the result of collapsing financial institutions on Wall Street and bursting of housing market bubbles. Sure, they played and are [...]

It just occurred to me how much healthier our nation’s economy is already because all of the underlying bad investments and perilous structures that have been exposed, collapsed, and/or are in the process of being flushed out. Who knew that our whole economy was built with such precarious underpinnings? But when the economy “comes back” [...]