by Teri Ong In a Time Magazine essay entitled “The Great Reset: The End of Excess” (4/6/09) Kurt Andersen makes the case that the current “economic crisis” is good for us because it is forcing us to rethink a fat lifestyle that has left us bloated and sick as a society. He cites many statistics to show where we have gone in the past 25 years: consumer debt up 35%, savings rates down from 11% to 1%, legalized gambling up from 2 states to 48 states, average weight of humans up 20 pounds per person, etc. Andersen calls it our […]

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