For those of you who know me well, you’ll appreciate that I am an honest person … not prone to profanity, racism or any illegal or immoral acts … I’m even relaxed over sexual persuasion and religious beliefs … and yet, for some inexplicable reason, Google have decided that my AdSense account should be disabled

In a recent survey done by Alix Partners, a business-advisory firm, as reported by CNBC, an overwhelming 61 percent of Americans are not expecting to return to pre-recession spending levels for quite a long time, if at all. Certainly the most recent jobs numbers which showed an increase in the jobless rate, and severely insufficient newly added jobs doesn't help Americans to feel any more confident about the direction of the economy, and so the results of this survey aren't all that surprising to me.

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World reads like a “who’s who” of the philanthropic world. From big names like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to lesser-known figures like Chuck Feeney and Donald and Doris Fisher, Philanthrocapitalism...