(This is the second of two parts. Part 1 is here) Suppose now that you have $150,000 to husband. What do you do? In today’s investing environment, with interest …
Michael Shuman, in this 27-minute chat, sketches out the main ideas of local economy. Local economy is about us. National economy is about them. In simplifying my theory to …
I met Jason Mitchell at our “Local Economy in One Lesson” event at the Ensinger farm in Dunlap, Tenn. He is an expressive family man who pooled his money …
Every Saturday morning farmers and other vendors gather at a church parking lot in Brainerd to peddle their vegetables and glass creations to a public as much interested in …
Inflation is a moral issue, not merely a technical one we should leave to statisticians and policy wonks who talk about exports or the global economy. Inflation is an …
The rise of the entitlement state is a moral problem of such size that it has become increasingly difficult to make a case against the compromises that give it …
In Basel, Switzerland, in a cylindrical building overlooking the Rhine, the gnomes of world finance meet every two weeks. Over dinner in their 18th floor hideout, they talk freely …
By David Tulis The idea of local economy is important to grasp because it is not about dull economics or dreary corporate news back in Section C of the …
