cap on happiness, and the five things you should never buy again. the five things you should never buy again, flu remedies, cell phone minutes, bottled water, credit card payment insurance. so also the thing i love, though, is the new lipstick index that nail polish is the new lipstick. basically for a long time economists talk about the lipstick index, when economic times are bad, people like to spend money on something small. and if lipstick sales went up in bad times. there it is. but nail polish sales are up like 65% this year, even more than lipstick, so it s the idea that nail polish is the new lipstick. this is joe s or yours? it s definitely mine. let s talk about the decline of the middle class written by jeffrey sachs. all the numbers are frightening. you look at union membership,