Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.