Grandma's Depression Memories

Like most people, whenever I cut an onion for cooking, I've always thrown away the ends and the dry, papery skin that surrounds the fles...

Over the past few days I've been sorting through some stacks of papers in my office area, in preparation for some repair work that needs...

My write-up of the changing economics of the convention scene went up today at the blog of Sarah A. Hoyt . My husband and I run The Starshi...

One of the factors contributing to the severity of the Great Depression was the development of easy credit. Automobile loans made the first ...

Over at The Burning Platform, Survival Sullivan has some notes on what life will be like after an economic collapse: If you have been wait...

When the money is tight, the first impulse is to cut back on non-essential spending. However, sometimes things that don't look essential...

The European Union, in typical European fashion, has just placed a crushing burden on every small business owner, just when we can least aff...