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http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9324. Really fantastic message in this interview, which is essentially that we ought to be encouraging entrepreneurship and self-employment as the means to achieve a higher standard of living and an improved quality of life (i.e. the American Dream).

Muhammad Yunus is an economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize a couple of years ago (2006, I believe) for his work in encouraging and pioneering micro-finance in third-world and developing countries. Now, with Michael Milken (famed inventor of the junk bond, now massive philanthropist), he is working to bring the concept of micro-finance to America. I am overjoyed to hear people advocating the message of entrepreneurship and independence. As layoffs continue to accelerate, the concept of financial independence being achieved through entrepreneurship could not be more important.