The Bodega at the End of the Internet

So the next time you encounter economic data, pay close attention to exactly what is being measured. Because we’re currently in the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ phase of our ‘silent’ recession: you can choose to reckon with the reality that a majority of Americans are struggling economically or you can cling to the truth that billionaires and

He had walked through woods, and sat at night beside a campfire. Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained, too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.

While falling prices might seem desirable to consumers, economists generally agree deflation is bad. Economywide price erosion typically comes with lackluster corporate investment, wage cuts and a mood of pessimism. No one celebrated when consumer prices fell more than 25% in the U.S. between 1930 and 1933, the outbreak of the Great Depression.

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.