Americans Are Spending Even When They Can’t Afford It

A December, 2010 article in Newsweek argues that after a brief period of cutting back Americans are starting to spend again—whether they can afford ...

Holiday Spending Forecast

Retail analysts anticipate that American consumers will be more conservative in their holiday spending in 2007, due to rising food and gas prices and ...

University of Florida's Sports Budget in Perspective

$69 million: The University of Florida's athletic department budget for the 2006-07 academic year. The Gators won their second straight men's basketball ...

Shopping Sabbatical Brings Freedom

What would it be like to go through an entire year without purchasing anything new?

That's the question a small West Coast group of environmental activists ...

Margins Prevent Total Loss

In 2005, a team in the Netherlands worked with meticulously to break the world record for falling dominoes. To accomplish the feat, they needed to set ...

Pay as You Go

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

Independence Through Frugality

I have a friend who has done a very interesting thing. He has lived frugally and saved sacrificially in order to have a cash account larger than his yearly ...

Living Below Your Means

Living below your means is so liberating you won't ever want to go back to the edge again.

The Unselfish Archbishop

When John Chrysostom became archbishop of Constantinople, he sold expensive works of art his predecessors had acquired. He refused to give lavish dinner ...

Search Committees

Knowing God is not a big item in the preparation of a lot of preachers over America today because, just between you and me, pulpit committees are not ...