Change is not stressful. Resistance to change creates stress. It creates stress frequently and sometimes continually in millions of individuals -- stress in the form of anger, jealousy, resentment, despair, and many other painful emotions. The global economic downturn/meltdown/implosion/catastrophe has temporarily transformed the myriad diverse experiences of resistance to change...

An interview with Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard and former Chief Economic Advisor for the International Monetary Fund was televised recently on PBS. It is as painful to consider as it is realistic and hopeful. The problem is bigger than many assume, he began,...

The global economic meltdown is activating fear in millions of individuals who, in turn, are activating it in millions more. Cable news channels, always seeking advertising revenue, report the grimmest news in the most attention-attracting ways, which intensifies fear. Last evening, for example, one reported the "horrifying numbers" contained in...

"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die" is from Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

I lived Alfred Tennyson's words before I read them. My need to enlist in the Army while the Vietnam War painfully unfolded, volunteer for airborne training,...

The global economic recession of 2008 did not begin with events that occurred in 2008 but it was triggered by some of them. The most easy to identify were sales of mortgages in huge numbers to individuals who were not (and are not) able to repay them. In this process...