Downsized

Wall Street has lost its luster. Financial services -- the white-collar industry that has grown to more than 8 percent of the economy -- is at a tippi...

As most of us know by now, the American Dream has been in so many respects an American Nightmare and it's kept us fast asleep. But the moment we wake up and think of ourselves in the context of the whole wide world, our perceptions of our place in it are radically altered.

Lately, it seems that bridges are built to be burned. The internet has made getting revenge easy today. Lose your job, start a blog. Hate your boss, shout it out on Facebook or Twitter.