Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity (Community Resilience Guides)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603583432 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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He also guides readers through the lucrative opportunities to invest locally in their homes, energy efficiency, and themselves.A rich resource for both investors and the entrepreneurs they want to support, Local Dollars, Local Sense eloquently shows how to truly protect your financial future--and your community's.. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. Local Dollars, Local Sense is a guide to creating Community Resilience.Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. A revolutionary toolbox for social change, written with compelling personal stories, the book delivers the most thorough overview available of local investment options, explains the obstacles, and profiles investors w
"Good survey of local and small scale investments, but not a practical guide" according to Alberto Vargas. I am very interested in profitably investing the little money that I have, and in building a more resilient local community around me. This book does cover this topic, but not in the way I expected. I am torn between giving it two or four stars, so I settled on Good survey of local and small scale investments, but not a practical guide I am very interested in profitably investing the little money that I have, and in building a more resilient local community around me. This book does cover this topic, but not in the way I expected. I am torn between giving it two or four stars, so I settled on 3. Why?The book contains very little actionable advice of any sort. This was the biggest disappointment. Perhaps the only truly actionable advice was to move your money from large banks to local credit unions.Where the book ex. . Why?The book contains very little actionable advice of any sort. This was the biggest disappointment. Perhaps the only truly actionable advice was to move your money from large banks to local credit unions.Where the book ex. "Brilliant and Timely" according to Burgundy Damsel. If there ever was a time when America needed a book like this, it's now! Shuman cuts through the red tape and miles of legal jargon to explain in applicable, understandable terms how individuals and communities can get off the unstable roller coaster that is the stock market and start investing well.Among key ideas explored in the book are:* The ludicrousness of blindly investing our money in businesses we don't agree with, that don't benefit us, and that we cannot influence* The rea. Tom Hardy said Why, oh why? Oh, *that's* why. And, what can be done.. What do you mean, I can't invest in a local business? Wait, I can only place my retirement dollars with some fund that scatters my dollars to the globalized winds, and maybe returns some financial gains, but almost certainly drives social and environmental harm? And those laws ostensibly designed to protect middle-class folks from scam artists have become tools for new, far more sophisticated manipulators of financial systems?Yep. Butthanks to this book, and the many people and organ
He is one of the architects of the crowdfunding JOBS Act signed into law by President Obama in April 2012.He’s a fellow at Cutting Edge Capital and Post Carbon Institute and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). Shuman is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and a globally recognized expert on community economics. Kellogg National Leadership fellow. Michael H. Previou
Consider this book an excellent investment!"--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and The End of Nature. As his thesis deepens, however, the material becomes more applicable for more seasoned, jargon-friendly economists. However, less than one percent of Americans's long-term savings touches local small business, which means that Americans are systematically overinvesting in Wall Street and under-investing in Main Street. Publishers Weekly-Economist and entrepreneur Shuman (The Small-Mart Revolution) provides a convincing argument that the general public should be allowed to invest in small businesses. Shuman calls, instead, for legislative reforms that shift savings away from those growth-oriented and life-destroying markets to new local financial markets that serve life-enhancing, place-based community enterprise. But don't put it under the mattress! This smart and thoughtful book expl