Jim Place, a salty investment adviser, is skeptical of the political economy run by Uncle. In the hour prior to our interview in his office in a Brainerd business …
A website that explores local economy and free markets in Chattanooga is sponsoring a public event at a Dayton, Tenn., farm that produces goats milk, eggs, honey and soap. …
It is often laid against corporate giants that they destroy local commercial ecocultures with their big boxes and their ubiquitous neon signs. These accusations often come from people who …
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” — Martin Luther ‡ For all my talk about local economy for Chattanooga — and that …
This four-minute video shows how robots run much of the Volkswagen factory. It is the nature of a large enterprise that as scale increases, its perspective shifts into the …
Above, Michael Shuman talks about developing local stock exchanges. I am willing to concede that perhaps we are wrong about the idea of local economy and are perhaps overestimating …
(Third of three parts) How do I invest locally? What traps should I beware? First, take into account to what extent investments depend on federal government credit. In these …
(Second of three parts.) When people think of investing, they think, “I must go to some investment counselor and I must send my money off to New York or …
