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  Iain and Gillian Boal showed me their building before it is renovated that will be an archive and center for conversation about dissent, anarchy, and social movements.    It is great that it is located right across the street from … Continue reading →

  Iain and Gillian Boal showed me their building before it is renovated that will be an archive and center for conversation about dissent, anarchy, and social movements.    It is great that it is located right across the street from … Continue reading →

Proud father time.

My friend Matt Ostrowski sent me a link to an article written in 2001 by Michael Hudson.  Not an easy read, but interesting because it was written in 2001, therefore the before the housing bubble popped in 2007.    It shows … Continue reading →

A friend, Patricia Watts, sent this picture of her mother because she knew we are setting up a Credit Union. Helen M. Watts (1922-2012) managed a credit union in Phoenix, Arizona for 15 years (1961-1976). She was a pioneer in the movement … Continue reading →

Driving across the country with my son (great fun), in Arizona the bright sun was blotted out with a red cloud. Dust. The person at the Agricultural inspection station at the California boarder said it happened every so often.  It … Continue reading →

I saw Hugh Sinclair speak and just finished his fabulous book:  Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor .   It shows how Kiva, Citi, and a famous VC, Vinod Khosla, among many … Continue reading →

Up until the mid-20th century, the villagers of Bali mostly did not use money, or at least not for anything real.   They used rice.   Rice has the great characteristics that hording does not work (it rots), you can use it … Continue reading →