If ever collective action is needed, it is during a major financial crisis. As history shows, this timely collaboration is hard to garner for six main reasons. Public policy regarding financial resilience should include collective action as a vital component, but this would necessitate a culture of resilience to flow down from the top.
David M. Shribman: A new year and a new president By David M. Shribman
New year, new president, new prospects, new attitude.
At least that is the hope, a resource that Americans from Emily Dickinson (who wrote during the depths of the Civil War that hope was “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul”) to Bill Clinton (who in his 1992 Democratic nomination acceptance speech spoke of his Arkansas hometown and said “I still believe in a place called Hope”) have summoned to approach a difficult and dangerous world.
Now, with vaccines heading to the drugstore, with a new Congress and president taking power, and with the darkest day of the winter 10 days in the past, there is reason to feel a fresh sense of optimism. And optimism is more than a feeling. It is a tool.
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