When asked about how satisfied they were, 76% rated themselves as seven out of 10, where 10 was completely and nought was not at all.

BBC: Well-being survey: Three-quarters satisfied with lives

After posting articles about how consumer trends will change the way we eat and recommending seven great gift ideas for your sustainability obsessed foodie, I am now here to tell you that shopping will not change the world.

FORBES: Buy Smart, But Shopping Won't Change the World

There are books that gallop you through a landscape of vivid anecdotes in a quest to turn five insights or seven habits or 10 lessons into a grand theory about how things should work.

WSJ: Book Review: The Org

With the tax return filing season about to begin, the Internal Revenue Service last week offered seven tips on how to protect yourself from becoming a victim of tax related identity theft.

FORBES: IRS Tips Won't Protect You From Identity Theft Tax Fraud

How that fee came about is something of a mystery, as well as the subject of claims made by seven state legislators in an attempt to intervene in the case.

FORBES: Seed money