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How to Be Frugal
The BBC's Ed Butler interviewed Aspen Senior Fellow Andrew L. Yarrow; Mr. Money Moustache, a popular personal-finance commentator, and others about frugality as a value and a practice.
Thrift: A Timeless American Value
In a lecture sponsored by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Andrew L. Yarrow discusses the rise and fall of thrift in American culture. Yarrow is the author of "Thrift: The History of an American Cultural Movement," published in 2015 by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Americans Low Savings Rate A Bad Sign for Good Economy
Falling Marriage Rates Reveal Economic Fault Lines
A national New Year's resolution: reducing our debt
While our $18 trillion gross federal debt is now larger than America's entire economy, at least as troubling is the nearly $12 trillion in debt that individuals and households have. The statistics are grim. While median assets have declined by a third since 2003 and are below those of 15 other count...
Bring back thrift
We live in a society in which too many who can save don't, and too many simply don't earn sufficient income to be able to save. Without savings, we are less able to take care of future needs, have less for the private and public investments necessary for a flourishing economy, are less able to provi...
A hidden time bomb: rising debt among the elderly
The aging of America bespeaks many medical triumphs but poses a host of difficult problems. Although in many ways it is a spectacular blessing that U.S. life expectancy at birth has risen from 47 to 78 years since 1900, and research has projected that babies born in recent years will live past 100, ...
Thrift – Telling the Story of a Cultural Movement for Today
Andrew Yarrow discusses the fate of a national movement that responded to the industrial age and a nascent consumer society. This unique coalition of social forces inspired both reform of character and institutions – and has great significance for today.
Thrift in Early 20th-Century America and Today
The United States is not a thrifty nation and "thrift" is often seen as an antiquated value in a society in which consumption is encouraged and most Americans either don't or can't save money. But that was not always the case. In early 20th-century America, thrift was the rallying cry for many civic...
Ten Leaders: Allies and Strange Bedfellows
The Debt Crisis We're Ignoring
It’s a topic that would have been in the news nearly a century ago around this time of year, when the nation kicked off National Thrift Week on Benjamin Franklin’s birthday, which is today. Thrift Week, which is being revived in Franklin’s hometown of Philadelphia, promoted not only s...
The Debt Crisis We're Ignoring
It’s a topic that would have been in the news nearly a century ago around this time of year, when the nation kicked off National Thrift Week on Benjamin Franklin’s birthday, which is today. Thrift Week, which is being revived in Franklin’s hometown of Philadelphia, promoted not only s...