According to those who track such numbers, in 2012 there were 12 million millionaires in the world with combined assets of $46.2 trillion. That was 10% more than the previous year, but regardless of how much more it may be, the issue for these millionaires is how to avoid paying taxes. Now that there has…

German Sociologist Harmut Rosa has recently published “Acceleration and Alienation” an essay about his idea that acceleration has become a key concept of our age. He makes a distinction between what he terms mechanical acceleration, or how long it takes us to do something and the pace of social change, the acceleration of daily life.…

The interest rate of student loans was raised to 6.8% last July 1st. Soon after, the senate failed to agree to reverse the rate increase. Education has traditionally been seen as a means to upward mobility, yet the cost of an education keeps going up making it necessary for many to borrow often large sums.…