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Book Comments: the Great Reset
I just finished reading Richard Florida’s latest book, Â The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. In this book, Florida argues that our current economic upheaval is more than simply a recession. Rather, he says it is is a major change-point in our economic/social systems, which will result in new [...]
May 27, 2010
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Tags: James Howard Kunstler, peak oil, Richard Florida, the Great Reset · Posted in: Book Review, Economics and Money, the Great Reset commentary
Cost of Living over the last generation
According to Richard Florida, in his latest book “the Great Reset“, over the last half century: 1)The amount of money the average American family spends on housing and cars has doubled from 22 percent to 44 percent of its budget, and… 2)The money a family must devote to healthcare has risen threefold, from 5.2 percent [...]
May 19, 2010
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Tags: Personal finance, Richard Florida, the Great Reset · Posted in: Economics and Money, consumerism, the Great Reset commentary
Ideas on Home Ownership
I just began reading Richard Florida’s book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. So far it is very interesting, and I’ve started following him on Twitter.com. Florida hypothesizes that in the coming years home ownership will be less attractive, as people will need to be more flexible in their [...]
May 5, 2010
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Tags: Home Ownership, the Great Reset · Posted in: Home Ownership, the Great Reset commentary
