Influx

Great writing from Heather Havrilesky in Salon who connects the failed experiment of the American Dream to the contemporary appeal of Mad Men."Americans are constantly in search of an upgrade. It's a sickness that's infused into our blood, a dissatisfaction with the ordinary that's instilled in...

It looks like Americans are becoming allergic to debt, the numbers had been accelerating upwards every single year, The Fed started records in 1979, now it looks like they are tumbling downwards. What defines a country when new homes, new cars and the debt financing of those material possessions...