Interesting Links For 10/6/08

Top links for today are…
- How Government Stoked The Mania: Housing prices would never have risen so high without multiple Washington mistakes. From the Wall Street Journal.
- Historic Fairmont/Roosevelt Hotel In New Orleans To Reopen: A historic New Orleans hotel shuttered since Hurricane Katrina will reopen in late spring of 2009 following a $135 million renovation.
- Living Within Our Means Is A Key Economic Step: Maybe we’re not all buying flat-screen TVs and leather-trimmed SUVs. But as a society, we’ve come to expect what were once considered luxuries as basic necessities.
- Space Elevator Moving Forward: The project is a “space elevator,” and some experts now believe that the concept is well within the bounds of possibility — maybe even within our lifetimes. (JLSEC anyone?)
- 10 Simple Ways To Live A Less Stressful Life: Now, your life will probably never be stress-free — I don’t think that’s even desirable, even if it is possible, because stress is something that challenges us and helps us grow. At a reasonable level. But when stress gets too high, it causes us to be unhappy and unhealthy.

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