Week of February 2, 2009

Consumer confidence has once again fallen to an all-time record low. The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis, fell for the ninth-time in eleven days and is now at the lowest level ever recorded.

There are 850 million museum visits a year in this country -- more than all other sporting events and theme parks combined. What kind of tragedy would it be if we Disney-fied our museums and got up to 1.5 billion visits a year and kids were learning more about history and about science and about global warming because we've borrowed so-called Disney techniques to help teach them? Is that a bad thing? I don't think so.