The Perfect Income for Happiness? Try $161,000

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It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World | Alternet

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But Will It Make You Happy?

But Will It Make You Happy? (NY Times)

How you spend has a greater effect on your happiness than how much you spend, researchers say.

SHE had so much.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”

So one day she stepped off.

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To Act Like the Rich, Be Frugal

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Obama official 'very disturbed' by Anthem Blue Cross rate hikes

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