Our capitalist system is based on the idea of an overall return on our assets: We buy things, then reconfigure, invent, invest, and redeploy them in ways that are more positive for the world.
And even though we know better, we buy those things that are bad for us anyway.
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"He said, 'Pop, we speak English, give me the money and we can buy things and sell them here, ' " his father recalled.
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If we could buy more things the economic climate would improve dramatically.
An unintended consequence is that we go out into the world market to buy the things we need while locking up our own raw materials.
Or, in other words, we would need to spend 3% more to buy the same things we bought 12 months ago.
This is known as the basket of goods and is regularly updated to reflect changes in the things we buy.
They are, however, quick and easy ways for each of us to measure the relative value of the things we buy.
Gasoline is unusual among the things that we buy for a lot of reasons, and here to help us understand why we feel differently about the price of gas than we do about just of anything else is Valerie Folkes from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
It is, as we say, socially responsible to buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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"We're going to make it a point to buy as (many) panda things as we possibly can today, " she said.
We want to buy and be into things that are going up, and sell and be out of the things that are going down.
What we do now is buy gold in the hope that things will get better in the future, and then we'd be able to brag about how much we had or just wear it.
Over a billion people getting rich simply by making things that we want to buy.
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So we do things eat, buy, speak, act to release the tension.
Very often, the biggest gamble in life comes in the working environment -- deciding when to stick and when to twist, when to realise that our own contentedness is determined not by the material things that we surround ourselves with but by the things that money can't buy, such as family.
We dont go through an extensive financial model to buy things.
We worried about people running up massive debts to buy things they could not really afford, and talked, even then about the middle class being squeezed.
So it's one of those things that we have to have, we have to buy it and there are a few substitutes for it.
But, he explained, "we need to balance that against the objective" -- which is to get investors to buy the things that are killing banks' balance sheets--and freezing up business loans and the economy.
You know, you can go to a showroom and just pull pieces and for - or you go to a store and buy pieces, but for an athlete, you know, for a suiting, we have to get things custom made.
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