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Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on October 16, 2012 at 8:43am

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wow.. even sig freud's nephew? or relative in the U.S. used the know-how of psychology to control people through his corporate bosses! father of PR! wow.. trip!

Comment by booklover on June 11, 2012 at 4:47pm

We use a small bank that is just in our city (pop. 150,000).  I like it, but we also have a small loan at a credit union, and I am going to check into that and see if the fees are better.  It's just that our bank is within walking distance, we don't have much money in there, and I don't think it has run amok with fees. Yet.

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 11, 2012 at 12:50pm

Florida credit unions add 48,000 new members, reach $45B in assets

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition/2012/0...

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 9, 2012 at 9:29pm

there needs to be more wifi available to families
it's a no brainer; it's up there with water and fuel

Comment by Chris G on June 1, 2012 at 1:19am

After the Citizens United supreme court case and financial meltdown of 2008 I started becoming politically active and reading what I could about ways to fix the problem of unequal representation. A subset of a group I'm with started a campaign to get the county to move their money into credit unions or banks that aren't too big to fail. Because of their work I came across information about Public Banks (Owned by the state as opposed to Private Banks which are owned by shareholders). Public Banks seem like a great idea yet there is only one in the U.S. and that's in ND. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand used to have Public banks, but according to one of the lectures I saw the Bank of England (a private bank) shut them down. Now the BRICS countries have Public Banks which may be why these countries are so successful. The website Public Banking in America has some interesting videos. I've only watched 5 of 9 of them and see Public Banking as a good solution to economic problem.

Here's the easiest video to watch

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on May 29, 2012 at 3:25am

there's a facebook group called 'automation socialism' u may be interested in... or just occupy in general...

Comment by Jeremy on May 9, 2012 at 10:46pm

Thanks for the invite Joan. :)

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 7, 2012 at 8:05pm

Jennifer, I am happy to see you join this group. I look forward to what we can discover about economics without all the jargon. There has to be some sense to all this drama, I just don't see it yet. 

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 7, 2012 at 3:08am

Chris, welcome to this group. We are in a time of profound changes, economically, politically, and with social issues popping up everywhere. It feels a little like the 1960s. Lots of chaos and conflict. Some think economics is a dismal science ... well, for one thing, it hasn't been much of a science in the past, it has been more dogma with dogmatic leadership. Things are shaking up a bit now.