Wow, this is a really exciting development in getting the message out to the world: Prosperity cannot be sustained (or achieved) through the consumption of stuff.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/UPDATE-2-Geithner-to-...

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G7, which groups the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, meet on Friday afternoon ... US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will tell fellow finance chiefs from rich countries on Friday that they can no longer rely on a free-spending US consumer to fuel global expansion.