Archive for March 10, 2009
You heard it here way back in the 20th century
When Tom Friedman – famous tout-er of globalization – uses his columns to challenge the growth paradigm, you know the world is changing. He quotes here two long time prophets (back a few years ago they called them Cassandras) of coming climate change, Joe Romm and Paul Gilding) and asserts that 2008 will be seen at the beginning of the “Great Disruption” when “Mother Nature and Father Greed have hit the wall at once”. When digging in to the update of YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE a year ago, I was amazed at how much we already were “on the money” about the links between eonomic growth and ecological decline. Reporters now ask me (more…)
“Don’t buy stuff if you don’t have the money” by SNL?
Once again, Saturday Night Live nailed it. Watch this clip about “Don’t buy stuff if you don’t have the money”. Of course, that’s obvious to you. And me. But don’t be surprised if you try to teach others about this approach to money and run into this kind of confusion…
If you have been an FI educator, how have people responded to you? Anything like Steve Martin?
