I really enjoyed this optimistic piece about the future of America by Barry Ritholtz. And it taught me a new term for people who’ve irritated me for decades: the “Zombie Bears,” i.e. the people who always see doom right around the corner.
There are serious long-term problems we face as a society, and much that’s going to have to be examined and re-examined by this generation and the coming one. Some of those problems are serious and are going to cause some pain. But one of those problems is an eternal one: the prophets of doom who profit from telling everyone else the world is going to end when it’s not. I see that not just in economics, but politics and environmentalism and religion too.
(This item cross-posted to Dean’s World.)
Dean Esmay is the author of Methuselah’s Daughter. He has contributed to Dean’s World, Huffington Post, A Voice for Men, Pajamas Media. Neither left nor right wing, neither libertarian nor socialist.