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 January 18, 2012   There's no need to count down the days until December 21, 2012--when some say the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it. The Mayans were right, but they were off by about 20 years.

 December 7, 2011  Millions of Americans are worried, anxious about their finances, and with good reason.

 October 19, 2011  In the 1980s, when I was the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine, I wrote an editorial called "The Affluent Nineties." 

September 20, 2011:  The Great Recession was supposed to have ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But the release last week of the 2010 income statistics calls that claim into question.

 August 16, 2011:  A recent article in the Los Angeles Times noted that U.S. companies "are beginning to give up on the American consumer as a source of future growth." Are businesses right to give up on us?

 July 19, 2011: It is painfully clear that the nation's politicians and business leaders are not demographers. If they were, they would not be so far off the mark in their positions and policies, products and promotions. Simply put, they do not have a feel for the average American.