Locavesting the revolution in local investing and how to profit from it
"How individuals and communities can profit from local investing. In the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesse...
| Main Author: | Cortese, Amy, 1961- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cereal milk for the Gods
- I: The economics of local
- Motherhood, apple pie, and political theatre : how we are failing our small businesses
- Blue skies, pipe dreams, and the lure of easy money : our financial legacy and its unintended consequences
- Buy local, eat local ... invest local : reconnecting investors and businesses
- The local imperative : leveling the playing field
- Experiments in citizen finance
- The last real baker? : relationship banking is not dead
- yet
- The biggest-impact financial sector you've never heard of : community development loan funds reach out to individual investors
- A model to LIONize : how one pacific northwest town engineered a quiet revival
- Community capital : it takes a village, or a police force, or perhaps some farmers
- Pennies from many : when social networking met finance
- Slow money : finance for foodsheds
- From brown rive to biofuels : co-ops on the cutting edge
- The do-it-yourself public offering : the allure of public venture capital
- Back to the future : the rebirth of the local stock exchange.