Article February 25, 2008 Issue

FINDING SOLID GROUND IN A STORMY ECONOMY

BY NED ODEGAARD

Divine Love ways has met and always will meet every human need.—Mary Baker Eddy

For Over two hundred years it has been widely accepted that financial markets are driven by two motivations—fear and greed. And fear certainly seems to be the dominant theme in today's financial headlines: fear that we can run out of the essentials of life, and fear that our well-being can be upset or overwhelmed by extreme, random events. Is this proposition of lack and randomness really true? Do we have to just sit there and take it, or is there another perspective on this subject beyond what we read in today's headlines?