A Healthy Sense of Fear?

An article from TCSDaily exploring why Americans feel less secure economically despite very tangible evidence that they've never been better off. Is this uniquely American?

Convincing Americans that their economic security is actually embedded in a kind of economic insecurity is, admittedly, a tricky argument to make in the political arena. But it's made easier by the fact that America remains a genuinely entrepreneurial society. This is one of the things that distinguishes the US from continental Europe and other parts of the globe.