…on as to whether or not a college education is worth the expenditure. While nearly everyone is in agreement that both four-year and advanced degrees do more good than harm…

…to be worth $260,000. I would regard a 25 year old who is worth $260,000 as upper middle class, if not borderline wealthy. They can already own the median house…

…leave the station until after 10 a.m., often with more than eight hours’ worth of mail to deliver. When you factor in travel times to auxiliary routes, I could not…

…to this, that any use of labor that is worth anything at all is worth that much more than nothing. In that respect the socialist view of business depressions is…

…of household net worth to GDP hovered between 3.4:1 and 4:1, averaging 3.7:1. Net worth is a valuation but for it to maintain a fairly constant ratio to GDP indicates…

…prominent outsiders. Few people are capable of writing 3 essays worth reading a week. I will just accept that opinion editors can’t (or shouldn’t) act like magazine editors and print…

This is not a prediction. Only an observation. From 1952 to 1996, U.S. nominal net worth of households and non-profits tracked nominal GDP pretty closely. Net worth remained pretty close…

…same rate as GDP, although net worth was several times larger. But after around 1995, a series of “lumps” can be seen in the net worth data that correspond with…

…are worth about $250trn (stock markets are worth only $90trn), accounting for half of all wealth. As capital crumbles, consumers cut back on spending. Though a cooler economy is what…

…generations may well be worth it if it also means leaving a safer, stronger country and world. In the case of climate change, more spending on renewable energies now could…