The Guardian (U.K.) reports in Greed is Good: A Guide to Radical Individualism:
In 1991, a survey carried out by the American Library of Congress and the Book of the Month club declared Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, “the most influential book on American lives after the Bible”. It has sold more than 6m copies in [...]

In a column detailing how we piled on debt from 2004-2008, Ralph R. Mabey in the Mormon Times has a good line to help us focus our future priorities:
In Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin’s words, we unwisely based our spending much more on our “yearnings” than our “earnings.”

For those of us who thought government intervention in the private sector was something new, Genesis 47 provides proof the practice is as old as, well, the Bible. It’s also a lesson in the possible perils: why the policy must be undertaken tenderly, and only at the most critical juncture.  
After he and his brothers make up, [...]

When 60 Minutes first aired this segment 15 months ago, it seemed a bit over the top.
Today, it appears just about every premise inspiring the nauseating trend it profiled has disappeared along with the wealth that allowed it to exist. It’s also a good lesson in not taking our riches for granted – even if [...]

Scion of the Baskin-Robbins business, John Robbins, who unwittingly lost his entire fortune in the Madoff scandal waxes philosophical in the face of the immense loss (98% of his wealth). He walked away from the family business 20 years ago in favor of a writing career. Now, he finds himself at the age of 61 finding [...]