INTERVIEW Investing in Local Economies with Michael Shuman – Author Local Dollars Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity.

BEST interview I have heard on the tools and problems of Investing your 
money Locally

Investing in Local Economies
March 7th, 2012
http://insideoutradio.com/2012/03/investing-in-local-economies/

On this week’s show, we discuss how to invest in local businesses and 
build strong local economies while profiting at the same time. We also 
examine the hurdles to larger scale investment in local businesses and 
explore areas of reform.

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Michael Shuman – Author, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your 
Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity.
Michael Shuman is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, 
http://cuttingedgecapital.com/ director of research and economic 
development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) 
http://www.livingeconomies.org/, and a Fellow of the Post Carbon 
Institute http://www.postcarbon.org/. He holds an AB with distinction in 
economics and international relations from Stanford University and a JD 
from Stanford Law School. He has led community-based 
economic-development efforts across the country and has authored or 
edited seven previous books, including The Small Mart Revolution: How 
Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2006), Going Local: 
Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (1998) and Local 
Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main 
Street and Achieve Real Prosperity.