The New Me-Economy
A Personal Economy
When I signed into MMMLOG today it didn't know me as it has been a few, dare I admit it, "months" since I last posted. Can't really say what moved me to actually step up to MMMLOGing nearly the last day in the first month of 2009. Finally the right time, I guess.
So, perhaps like Mmmmmm, you have been trying to make sense of world events and the so-called New Economy, which I believe we are each reflecting in our own individual Me-economies or lives in varying degrees. Of course, we're all constantly affected or conditioned by, more than most realize, the "media outlets" we're plugged into. For the past six months I've started my day with CNBC, which I don't recommend because it's as addictive and as bad for one as that first cigarette of the morning. If you've been doing the news you'll know the world financial crisis, layoffs, bailouts, plummeting stock market and continual bottom-calling that doesn't materialize can negatively skew your outlook on the future.
I've always been business-oriented or perhaps economy-minded, my personal Meconomy being the most interesting to me. However, conglomerates of people known as countries, economies, governments, stockholders and consumers are mostly interested in their own personal Meconomies, too. And because of this individual Me-economic bias, I wonder if there can be any truly objective economic forecasting to be had anywhere? Perhaps people can only relate to what threatens to be a global economic catastrophe when it gets personal. They get laid off. The corner Starbucks closes. The friendly neighborhood bank is TARPed over by an international megabankcorp. Upside down doesn't apply to your favorite cake anymore but to the house and car loans. Or, like one of the contractors who's putting my house back together after a pipe broke under the upstairs bath last month, he's worried his business will disappear completely while he's using free airline tickets to Australia to visit the wife's family.
Even if we don't seem to be directly affected by the world's apparent economic meltdown because we're still working, paying the bills and managing to save a bit, it doesn't mean that we aren't feelin' it because media makes sure we do. Most people I talk to seem to feel that while their own Meconomies are doing okay, they're waiting for another other doom shoe to drop off the economic octopus that will put them up Poverty Creek without a propulsion instrument.
Personally, I'm going to swear off my morning cuppa hemlock news in favor of increased productivity, inspirational profit sharing, and constant blessings accounting that are guaranteed to depression-proof Mmmmmeconomy, and the world's, I pray.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
When I signed into MMMLOG today it didn't know me as it has been a few, dare I admit it, "months" since I last posted. Can't really say what moved me to actually step up to MMMLOGing nearly the last day in the first month of 2009. Finally the right time, I guess.
So, perhaps like Mmmmmm, you have been trying to make sense of world events and the so-called New Economy, which I believe we are each reflecting in our own individual Me-economies or lives in varying degrees. Of course, we're all constantly affected or conditioned by, more than most realize, the "media outlets" we're plugged into. For the past six months I've started my day with CNBC, which I don't recommend because it's as addictive and as bad for one as that first cigarette of the morning. If you've been doing the news you'll know the world financial crisis, layoffs, bailouts, plummeting stock market and continual bottom-calling that doesn't materialize can negatively skew your outlook on the future.
I've always been business-oriented or perhaps economy-minded, my personal Meconomy being the most interesting to me. However, conglomerates of people known as countries, economies, governments, stockholders and consumers are mostly interested in their own personal Meconomies, too. And because of this individual Me-economic bias, I wonder if there can be any truly objective economic forecasting to be had anywhere? Perhaps people can only relate to what threatens to be a global economic catastrophe when it gets personal. They get laid off. The corner Starbucks closes. The friendly neighborhood bank is TARPed over by an international megabankcorp. Upside down doesn't apply to your favorite cake anymore but to the house and car loans. Or, like one of the contractors who's putting my house back together after a pipe broke under the upstairs bath last month, he's worried his business will disappear completely while he's using free airline tickets to Australia to visit the wife's family.
Even if we don't seem to be directly affected by the world's apparent economic meltdown because we're still working, paying the bills and managing to save a bit, it doesn't mean that we aren't feelin' it because media makes sure we do. Most people I talk to seem to feel that while their own Meconomies are doing okay, they're waiting for another other doom shoe to drop off the economic octopus that will put them up Poverty Creek without a propulsion instrument.
Personally, I'm going to swear off my morning cuppa hemlock news in favor of increased productivity, inspirational profit sharing, and constant blessings accounting that are guaranteed to depression-proof Mmmmmeconomy, and the world's, I pray.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 7:07 AM
