Habits! – 04.10.15

Much of our lives is constrained by bad habits and the unthinking actions we take that go with them. Current research focuses on how to adopt good habits easily (you’ll be surprised) and the absurdity of the reasoning that goes behind so many of our habits. This is useful in many ways: sticking to a budget, breaking eating habits, flossing, living in America when you could be a lot better off elsewhere… More lies about unemployment statistics. Disability fraud. Once people go on disability, they almost never come off… Disgruntled employees. The AIIB new monetary system led by the Chinese. Lots of countries are joining. GDP forecasts (a total waste of time). Not counting workers 55 or older, working-age Americans have 1.5 million fewer jobs than 15 years ago.