this just in:

Money doesn't buy happiness. Maybe you didn't need a Newsweek article or economic study...you probably only need to live a little to figure this out. I'd say man had this figured out a long time ago.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 says:

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.

Maybe the most interesting quote in the article was this: "Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will strive only for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well being." Hmmm...So what is the real key to happiness?

"But seek first [God's] kingdom and his righteousness..." Matthew 6:33.

John 4:13-14: "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The question may not seem as simple as this since God never promises "happiness" the way most of the world defines it, but maybe we should redefine our expectations and search for what God provides.