• Heidemarie Schwermer Has Been Moneyless For 16 Years

    Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old German woman, has been living without money for nearly 16 years and is reportedly much happier because of it, as is documented in the film “Living Without Money”. How does she do it? For food, Schwermer barters a few hours of hard labor cleaning and gardening in exchange for food. For…

  • Boomerang Generation Sanguine About Staying with Mommy And Daddy

    More than three-quarters of young adults ages 25 to 34 who have moved back home with their families during the Great Recession and the troubled economic years that followed say they’re satisfied with their living arrangements and upbeat about their future finances. Those arrangements have benefited their parents as well: almost half of all boomerang…