Annals of Money and Morals
In his column today titled "The Great Seduction", New York Times columnist David Brooks writes about how, in his view, the US has moved from "industrious, ambitious, and frugal" to "financial decadence, the trampling of decent norms about how to use and harness money." He's stimulated by a recent report titled "For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture" from the Institute for American Values - a summary of which is available online in this article titled "A Nation in Debt" by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.
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