Tag: gift giving

The Beauty of Exchanging Gifts

Commentary Some years ago, some economists came up with an idea that became briefly fashionable. The idea is that gift-giving is inefficient. That’s because it is unlikely that the gift given to the recipient would have been as high up on his utility scale as some other item that could have been purchased for the…


The Secret for a Debt-Free Holiday Season in a Single Word

It’s not exactly a new word to me. But I’m pretty sure I’d never actually used the word “pre-determine” in a sentence until my pastor referred to it recently — and in a way that turned on a bright light in my noggin. To pre-determine is to make a decision in advance. That describes perfectly…