Local economy is a fine idea, and Clay Hales of InfoSystems understands the impulse behind it. Local people investing in local companies might be profitable both ways. But a …
The interest of Chattanoogans in local economy and self-determination is under threat from numerous sources. The main threat against the interests of people in my hometown and yours is …
Chattanooga financial adviser Jim Place, who runs Evergreen Advisors, is a man who has his ear on the heartbeat of Chattanoogans. He hosts a daily talk show on WGOW …
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 …
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 …
