Free-market, lib­er­tar­ian, con­ser­v­a­tive extrem­ists on the right are just as dan­ger­ous to the econ­omy as those com­mu­nist, social­is­tic extrem­ists on the left. As in most things in pol­i­tics and soci­ety, the so-called Golden Mean, to use Aristotle’s phrase, lies in the mid­dle. Too much of the… Con­tinue reading

“The stress and depres­sion [over my debt] has got­ten so bad at times that I’ve seri­ously thought about killing myself. I’ve thought more about walk­ing into a finan­cial aid office, or a bank, and just blow­ing every­one away. Why even bother rob­bing them, all cash is trace­able now. No, I’d do it because my… Con­tinue reading