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Thread By Thread – Gloria Travers & The North Street Band
When love begins to unravel, do you walk away or pick up the thread? “Thread By...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
True ownership is a vanishing luxury. When manufacturers hide parts, lock software, and glue components together, you are not buying a product; you are merely renting it until it breaks.
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- Written by: Daniel Mandell
Rising economic inequality in America has deep historical roots, dating back to the nation’s founding. From fears of concentrated wealth in the 1700s to modern debates on wealth taxes, the struggle for economic equality has persisted. This article explores the evolution of these concerns and the proposed solutions throughout American history.
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- Written by: Jay L. Zagorsky
As electric vehicle sales surge, the traditional funding model for U.S. road maintenance, primarily reliant on fuel taxes, faces significant challenges. With a growing number of states exploring alternative funding methods, the future of road infrastructure funding is uncertain and requires innovative solutions to ensure sustainability.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Wildfire smoke is not just an environmental story — it is an economic one. Every plume that drifts across a city carries with it a set of costs that most financial models still struggle to fully price. Understanding the mechanics of that damage is the first step toward reckoning with what comes next.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Something feels broken, and it isn't just your news feed. Across wealthy democracies, people are sensing that extraordinary technological power and individual freedom aren't adding up to lives that feel whole, fair, or sustainable. What if the separate crises of inequality, democratic erosion, and environmental collapse all trace back to the same stubborn historical habit?
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
The most consequential economic force of the next fifty years is not artificial intelligence, climate change, or geopolitical rivalry. It is something far quieter and far more certain: fewer people being born. When a country stops replacing itself, every assumption its economy was built on begins to crack.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
On August 19, the U.S. Treasury quietly announced it would at least double the size of certain debt buyback operations, and bond markets moved immediately. Most Americans scrolled past the headline. That was a shame, because hidden inside that dry announcement was a window into how federal money actually works — and why almost everything you have been told about the national debt is at best incomplete and at worst a political weapon aimed directly at you.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
More than 70 million Americans now earn income through gig work, yet most conversations about this workforce treat it as a temporary detour rather than a structural destination. Understanding who actually does this work — and why — exposes something important about how the economy has been quietly reorganizing itself for decades. If you are already in the gig economy or considering it, the difference between thriving and merely surviving comes down to strategy, not luck.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Somewhere tonight, an elderly person is lying in a nursing home bed waiting for help that is not coming. Not because the staff is lazy. Not because the facility forgot. But because there is no one left to come. That is the reality unfolding across America right now, and the policies driving it are only accelerating.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Imagine a business owner who buys cheap equipment to save money this quarter. Six months later production slows, customers leave, and the employees follow them out the door. We would call him a poor manager, yet governments make this exact kind of decision every single day and call it leadership.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Most people have been taught that the fastest path to economic growth runs through the wealthy -- give investors more money, and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everyone else. But decades of evidence and the basic mechanics of how markets actually function tell a very different story. Real economies are driven by customers, not capital holders, and understanding that distinction changes everything about how you see growth, policy, and the future.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Across the 2026 Democratic primaries, something the party establishment did not plan for is happening in plain sight. A 29-year-old attorney knocks off a 30-year incumbent in Colorado. A democratic socialist wins New York City's mayoralty. Progressive insurgents topple entrenched moderates from Maine to California. This isn't a wave. It's a reckoning, decades in the making, and it is finally breaking the surface.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
A strait 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest point carries roughly 20% of the world's seaborne oil and LNG — and when it closes, the bill doesn't get sent to the generals who ordered the strikes. It gets sent to the family filling up the tank, buying groceries, and wondering why the mortgage payment feels heavier this month. The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that began February 28, 2026, have set in motion an economic chain reaction that is still accelerating, and understanding its mechanics is the only way to see where it ends.
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You have probably never stood in the cereal aisle and thought 'am I truly free right now?' But the question of whether your choices are genuinely yours runs deeper than philosophy classrooms and academic journals. It turns out that most ordinary people, when asked directly, believe they are free and responsible for what they do, even in a universe where causes and effects chain together like dominoes.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Inflation is the word everyone uses and almost no one fully understands. Your grocery bill goes up, the news blames the Federal Reserve, a politician blames the other party, and an economist writes a paper that takes three years to be proven wrong. The truth is messier, more interesting, and more useful than any of them will tell you.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
You were never handed this bill. That was the design. Spread across forty-six years and ten thousand ordinary transactions, no single charge ever looked like a policy, but added together they represent the most expensive thing that ever happened to your household. This article is the total, and it runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for most Americans, and well past a million for many.
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- Written by: Max Harris and Alexander E. Kentikelenis, University of Oxford
The concept of universal basic income (UBI) is gaining traction globally, with pilot programs underway in Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands. While it promises economic security, crucial questions arise about its impact on community solidarity and social bonds, as well as the risk of reinforcing individualistic values. Understanding these dynamics is essential for its successful implementation.
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- Written by: Chad M. Gasta
Studying abroad offers students significant advantages in the job market, enhancing critical thinking, communication skills, and cultural awareness. With increasing funding and diverse program options, more students, especially minorities, are seizing these opportunities to boost their employability and gain valuable international experience.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
My yard man understood inflation in sixty seconds, but the financial press establishment has spent months obscuring what any working person can grasp immediately: the difference between year-over-year and month-over-month inflation tells you whether prices are stabilizing or accelerating dangerously.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would disrupt one-third of the world's seaborne oil trade overnight. If geopolitical tensions in Iran escalate to that point, your grocery bill, gas tank, and retirement account won't wait for diplomatic solutions. Understanding the mechanics of this risk isn't pessimism—it's financial literacy.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We like to think of welfare as compassion—food stamps, rent relief, and heating aid helping people through hard times. But if that were enough, why does the need keep growing generation after generation. Maybe the problem is not that we have too little welfare, but that we built an economy that depends on it. The question is not how to fix welfare, but how to make it unnecessary.
