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Money: The Key to Happiness or the Root of All Evil?
Is money the key to happiness or the root of all evil? If growth and prosperity don't provide a sense of wellbeing, what will? With a fiscal crisis already under way, we take a new look at the way happiness is measured and how it's achieved in the US and other parts of the world. Also, the inventory glut on store shelves and at frozen ports, and overcoming the fear of numbers.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenIs money the key to happiness or the root of all evil? If growth and prosperity don't provide a sense of wellbeing, what will? With a fiscal crisis already under way, we take a new look at the way happiness is measured and how it's achieved in the US and other parts of the world. Also, the inventory glut on store shelves and at frozen ports, and coping with numbers in the news, politics and real life.
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3 storiesInventory Glut on Store Shelves and at Frozen Ports
Just the way bad weather backs up the airlines, a decline in consumer spending leaves inventories in place and backs up supply lines. One sign of the effort to get things moving is that post-Christmas sales this year happened before Christmas.
Read the story6 minMoney: The Key to Happiness or the Root of All Evil?
In a put-down of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway once wrote, "The very rich are different from you and me… they have more money." But ever since Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1776, western economies have been based on growth and prosperity as the keys to happiness.
Read the story34 minThe Numbers Game
Why is "average" a stupid idea? What does the "risk" of dying really mean? Is the national "debt" as big as it sounds? The BBC Radio program, More or Less, got a big enough audience to become a book. Now it has crossed the ocean with a new title, The Numbers Game : The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, Politics and in Life.
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