This article is a pretty good analysis of the financial mess.
“Maybe other powerful figures will step across the divide and begin speaking against the insanity of endless economic growth and the conversion of everything we value into commodities to be bought and sold.”
By Robert C. Koehler
COTO Report
’Tis the season to feel rage and heartache about the economy.
I feel hope as well, praise the Lord, thanks to Pope Francis and the alley behind my house, where nothing of value goes to waste.
I’m the kind of person who can’t throw anything away, but sometimes I have to anyway — an old microwave, a sewing machine that hasn’t been used in 20 years, a threadbare easy chair, tangled computer wires and other excruciating miscellany — and when I do, it’s usually gone within a day, if not an hour. When I can no longer find value in what I possess, others see it as a gift from the universe.
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