Pop Economy!

You cannot purchase these at this site, but metaphorically they are everywhere...

Seems like we’re in a world of hurt these days, doesn’t it? If you’ve ever visited the US National Debt Clock then you know just how dire things are!  But there’s a silver lining out there…the United States has lots of absolutely brilliant financial minds who spend their days turning over our collective couches looking for pennies under our seat cushions in order to rescue us from calamity.  But there’s just one problem: none of them talk to each other.

There have been so many great studies done on the billions of dollars we as Americans can save each year doing this or that, but when you read these articles in Parade Magazine or on CNN, they go down like junk food.  They’re a nice sugar rush, and a few hours later they are all but forgotten.  But what if there were a way to collate all this information?  What if we actually DID everything the economists prescribed for us?  I had a hunch there were so many “coins” in the seat cushions that their research studies strained credulity.  Not any one study mind you, but in their entirety.  And that junk food is our Pop Economy.

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