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In response to a recent article over at Business Week, "Snipping Credit lines for Small Businesses", which discusses how JPMorgan Chase and others are slashing small-business lending in a...
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The jobs issue is the classic argument for growth. There are other ways of taking care of a growing population....service work, job sharing,return to agriculture... the list keeps growing. Cheap ...
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Since we have now seen the presentations at PBA2013 on the artificial financial woes of the USPS, we know the selling of post office buildings is a serious outcome. Looking at it from purely a bus...
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These are all good points.
If Public Banking were adopted in every state, would there be more growth or less? Is all growth bad or just some growth. How do we separate good growth from the bad...
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Philosophically speaking, a good point to bring up in certain company is the fact that even Adam Smith warned there were limits to growth in Wealth of Nations. Both John Stewart Mill and John Mayna...
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So glad to see this discussion here!
My take on these issues is largely informed by the work of Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and NEF (the new econ...
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All good and I for one appreciate the input about various measures of "growth" and the "happiness" index.
But based on what I recall, I don't think the C-word ("capita...
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As to the measures issue, might I direct your attention to www.gnhusa.org Its the web site of our organization Gross National Happiness USA. In turn, its was modeled on the GNH paradigm started i...
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Anyway, public banks don't HAVE to issue interest-bearing debt. OR public banks could choose to issue debt for certain agreed-upon purposes at extremely low interest. For example, long-term CD&...
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This is a great conversation and I wish I had somehow built this topic into the conference. Lots of great comments here...I just want to add that, while there is wide recognition within the PBI bo...
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