Month: March 2012
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Driving transition with local businesses
This is a subject I have thought a lot about. Would it be possible to completely side-step the toxic, debt/credit-based system we are living in and just invest the money we have in local, sustainable and resilient businesses? Well, we could give it a go. It is all to do with bonds. A bond is a simple certificate that for…
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The sticky problem of trade deficits
But what about the balance of trade? By Anders Höglund with Stephen Hinton Trade imbalances which persist for long periods of time tend to warp the infrastructure of the economy and create imbalances which will harm the economy in the long run. Sooner or later these structural imbalances will have to be remedied at a…