At Wells Fargo, customers who want to close their accounts are being encouraged to explain their decision and read a flier that outlines ways in which the bank has helped communities.

WSJ: Customers to Banks: It's You, Not Me

Rhodes is known for having predicted many of the troubles we faced beginning in 2008, and a read of his new book will help explain why.

FORBES: Book Review: Banker To the World by William R. Rhodes

Speculation and volatility are here to stay, they explain. (Read Wind Energy Is Poised To Pop After Strong First Quarter).

FORBES: Oil Prices Close To Peak As High Prices Destroy Demand

Jain Irrigation, an Indian maker of irrigation systems, uses dance and song to explain the benefits of drip irrigation to farmers who can't read.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

And that may partially explain why there is such fervor around the warmist debates that I read here on the Forbes website, which I have found baffling, having convinced myself of the macro-economic benefits of alternative energy prior to writing about it.

FORBES: Why Alternative Energy, Part Two

Every time I read one of these articles and start to get hyped up about generations after mine embracing vinyl, I have to explain to someone (for instance my 20 and 23 year old children) why I have such a vested interest in this, why I am emotionally attached to not just records themselves, but the intangible things that come with them.

FORBES: Ode to Vinyl Records