A few weekends ago I was meeting up with an old friend with the intention of spending a night on the town and doing it on the cheap. During our undergraduate days, our benefactors and part-time jobs gave us enough to eat out on weekends and buy fun things like video games and beer. However, even with the support we were- as most every college student is- flat broke.

From my perspective a lack of disposable income lends to creativity. Would piracy be rampant if everyone could easily afford the media they desired? I doubt it, and I also doubt that in better circumstances I would have ever designed the groundbreaking equation [11%ABV x 50000mL / $9] that conclusively proved Boxed Wine to be the best bang for your buck.

THE majority of headlines that garner attention from the newly impoverished sectors of our society deal with financial issues. In this day and age of failing banks, unstable economies, and a flurry of analysts hoping to solve such issues, the American government has taken a clear path. With the passing of the second-round fiscal stimulus, the theories of John Maynard Keynes are finally getting a true shot at the big time.