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 …
By Franklin Sanders At first it may sound loony, but money and wealth are not identical. Wealth is owning productive assets: fruit trees that produce fruit. Money is simply …
Have you wondered about feeling “loyal” to your hometown and the basis of it? You do not care greatly about its history. You are not an avid follower of …
