Michael Shuman
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"Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. 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. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of global companies on their communities invest in Main Street?In...
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Defenders of massive multinational chains like Wal-Mart and Fortune 500 big business argue that, like it or not, there is no alternative. Their huge scale and international reach, they claim, make them more efficient and profitable, better able to deliver value, and an uncontested boon for the job market. According to the big boys, locally owned small businesses are simply quaint remnants of the past, unable to compete in the global economy. But in,...
3) Put Your Money Where Your Life Is: How to Invest Locally Using Self-Directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s
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Learn how to stop investing in Wall Street and start investing in your local community with this practical layperson's guide.
Americans agree on very little these days, but we can all agree on one critical point: Wall Street can no longer be trusted. Yet most of us continue to invest our money in the stocks and bonds of Fortune 500 companies, transferring our capital far from where we live and work. Local investing expert Michael Shuman offers another...
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With a groundswell of "local-first" movements springing up across the country, anti-consolidation sentiment is high. THE SMALL-MART REVOLUTION proves that local businesses actually out-perform their competition, both in outright profitability and the value they bring to consumers, workers, and communities.
5) Feed
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Olivia and Matthew Grey are eighteen-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them; even their dreams are connected. Their futures shine bright with Olivia set to be the class valedictorian and Matt the class president. As the twins prepare for their last school year together, an unexpected tragedy splits them apart, leaving the surviving one to learn how to live without their other...
6) Middle men
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"Businessman Jack Harris ... built the perfect life by solving other people's problems. Then he met Wayne ... and Buck, two moronic geniuses with a shocking plan to make millions on the Internet. When Jack helps launch their business scheme, the cash starts rolling in. Suddenly surrounded by money, organized crime and the FBI, Jack fools himself into believing that he's staying clean in a dirty business"--Container