Uneconomic Growth

Nice/short article on what is true growth and what is not:

a better quality of life stems not from consuming more, but from a range of mostly immaterial things

Details of the Debt Ceiling Deal

If you're wondering why your butt hurts right now, it's because you just got screwed by the debt ceiling bullshit.

[This and much more]

Median Net Worth of Households

White people have more money (in their houses) than black people or hispanics....

Why Captcha's Use Real Words

Google is using captcha to decipher text in books in a program called recaptcha.