In case you missed This American Life’s excellent job of explaining The Giant Pool of Money (go listen right away), or you’re more of a visual person, here’s a great visual explanation of why your 401(k) is in the crapper* and why the economy is going with it.
*Yes, I think that’s the official/technical term for the Credit Crisis right now :-).
from The Work of the People and Floodgate Productions ::
During financially challenging times, it’s so easy for us to forget who we’re putting our trust in. Are we trusting in Wall Street, or in the God who created it all?
TWOTP have a great selection of videos for your church, group or wherever. They’ve also put together a great selection of videos geared specifically for the current times we find ourselves in. The above video is a free download as part of that collection.
From the website:
The 10 Day Give is a challenge that is designed to help us get our minds off of ourselves and start thinking about how we can help others.
The thing is, I think most people really want to make other people’s lives better, but with everything going on all around us all hours of the day, we just don’t get a chance. This is an opportunity to choose, on purpose, to give of ourselves. There really are hundreds of opportunities that we overlook each day. My goal is to just grab hold of one of them each day.
For some people that means giving money, for others time is far more precious than money, and for others it may mean their expertise in an area. But, no matter who you are, we all have something to give.
It could be taking someone out to lunch, it could be babysitting for an overworked mom, it can as simple as giving your precious time by taking your mom to the park to talk. There are no rules, no judges, and no right or wrong ways of completing the challenge.
But, I encourage you to sign up for the challenge and decide to give whatever you can – it’s only for 10 days. And who knows, maybe it will become a habit.
Starting on October 10th, 2008 we are going to give something to a different person, each day until October 19th, 2008. It doesn’t matter what the gift is, how much it costs, who it is given to, or how it is given. The point is to just to give – on purpose. We hope you decide to join us.
HT – Andrew Jones
Texas oilman T.Boone Pickens is pushing wind and natural gas these days. As some have suggested, the former billionaire oilman has had a “come-to-Jesus moment” and realizes the problems with American spending $700 billion on oil each year.
He’s got a number of videos on YouTube now along with a fancy new website explaining his plan. Makes since to me, but I haven’t explored everything about it.
Here’s his TV commercial ::
And an explanation of his plan ::
He mentions that his plan will take less than 10 years to achieve but will take the right leader to get the job done. Wonder who he thinks that should/would be.