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...activity at the end of the Great Depression. Kuznets himself warned that "the welfare of a nation can ... scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income." Seventy-five years on, GDP feels like an idea whose time has finally passed. "GDP measures, in a certain sense, how much stuff we can produce that we can drop on an enemy," Alan Krueger - now a top-ranked economist in the Obama Administration - said at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) World Forum in 2007. "It's natural in the post?Cold War era that we would turn to other...
...example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might do the same for Tibetans. Sure, this is small stuff. But it could get bigger. And high in the Himalayas, soldiers continue their patrols...
...attention. What they did was monetize them. There have long been odd families and obscure men pursuing bizarre theories and cobbling together flying machines in their backyards. But only in the reality-TV era has unstable behavior become a valid career choice. Only now are questionable parenting decisions the stuff of a lucrative family business. Say whatever you want about Jon and Kate Gosselin, their divorce proceedings entail numbers with a lot more zeroes than your typical young Pennsylvania family encounters...
...decided that for one week I would buy only stuff that was on sale. My first mistake was getting my lovely wife Cassandra to join me. The speed with which she both agreed and went to her computer should have clued me in to the fact that while I envisioned coupon-clipping and circular-reading, she saw the doors swing open to a World Wide Web of crap. Did you know there's an amber teething necklace that the baby doesn't actually put in his mouth but that works by releasing soothing warmth? And would you believe that...
...sort of doesn't matter if something is on sale or not on sale," he said. "What I always come back to on the Cheapskate Blog is, Do I need this?" Then Tuttle suggested some sites, such as Eversave.com and Coupon.com where I could print out coupons for stuff I wanted. He also mentioned a deal I couldn't pass up: that weekend, Ikea was giving out free breakfasts...