“Businesses Barter For Renewable Energy”
A New Local Investment and Credit System designed to grow renewable energy and strengthen local economies.
Earn your own energy, don’t borrow someone elses. Renewable energy emerges as the true “treasury” security in the economy of the future!
“Businesses Barter For Renewable Energy”
A New Local Investment and Credit System designed to grow renewable energy and strengthen local economies.
A falling knife cuts scrambling hands,
Crushing greed in its path, it makes it’s demands.
A powerful force exposes weak links,
Revealing the financial elitists’ calculating winks.
We believed the full story, the old American Dream,
Now fumble for truth beneath the whole scheme.
What if we woke up to our foolish ways?
Seeking a simpler life for tomorrow’s days.
Stop saving money for a wishful life ahead,
We’ll live for today and retire when dead. Continued
So what is an Economic Detox? Raw green vegetables consumed through a straw is the food equivalent. Think diarrhea. I know what you are thinking, “yuk”. But as Wall Street has learned the hard way, we have no choice in the matter. Our economy is detoxing whether we like it or not; dropping our excess weight in order to regain our balance; flushing our obese corporate and government costs down the toilet in support of the long-term prosperity of the quicker, lighter, faster and more profitable Mom and Pop entrepreneurs. Continued
The American Dream once strongly stood for ideal freedom. For as a child in America, we are so fortunately nagged about what we want to be when we grow up: a fireman? an astronaut? or how about an entrepreneur? The American Dream meant career choices for everyone in America!
But somehow our freedom of choice that once so clearly encompassed the American Dream changed. Not sure when or how, but it clearly changed. For as I grew older, the American Dream became all about owning a home. What house, in what neighborhood, with how many bedrooms was all that we seemed to dream about. But then suddenly, the dream became a nightmare. Continued
A developer once told me that if you do a deal with someone that has fleas, your bound to get fleas. For example, Bear Stearns and AIG have fleas. I understand the fear-based argument for getting fleas, “We have no choice”. But borrowing more money to participate in the Flea Market can’t be our only choice. What if the “Free Markets” posed another choice? What if there was a much better way than borrowing more time and money just to get fleas (and these are big and scary fleas)? Continued
As the Fed continues to “print” more money what is the effect on the economy. Can they “print” their way out of this economic slide by lending more and more money to their friendly financial institutions? “Printing” more money against the same asset base is like an alcoholic having “just one more drink”. Such an attitude eventually leads to another and another…it is a bad idea and only works to “inflate” the existing problem. Continued
So how much paper money is out there anyway. Does it matter that every time The Wizard of Oz (The Fed/government) decides to bailout a financial institution like Bear Stearns, Lehman, Fannie or Freddie, they have to print more and more money. What is behind this printing of money and how do they do it? Continued