Archive for January 2009

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Economic Meltdown, When You Finally Get the Memo

The economic meltdown came so fast and so furiously, most of us weren’t sure how to even reaction.   With the markets plummeting, housing prices on a steep decline and people getting laid off left and right, we were left with mixtures of anger and grief.  To at least some degree, life as we knew it [...]

Real Experts and Phony Experts. In the Media, It’s Hard to Tell

There is an old saying about people believing what they read in print.   With so many people blogging on the Internet and selling self-published books and periodicals, there is a surfeit of information.  But the fact that there is a lot of information doesn’t make most of it particularly accurate or authentic.   Websites like Snopes.com [...]