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“The Super Committee failed: We have a solution…”

By Mark | December 7, 2011

Yesterday, a group of people associated with the Occupy group in Washington, D.C. took out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, declaring that, as the Deficit Reduction Super Committee had failed, they had some ideas to offer as to how we might create jobs, reduce the wealth divide and control spending. Their […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 99%, Bush tax cuts, capital gains, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, drill baby drill, infrastructure, job creation, Medicare, Medicare for all, military spending, Occupy, Occupy D.C., social security, solutions, Speculation Tax, Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, subprime mortgage crisis, tax havens, tax loopholes, tax reform, tax the rich, wealth inequality, Works Progress Administration, writing down all underwater mortgages to market value | 10 Comments

Starting a fund to purchase urban farmland in Ypsilanti

By Mark | October 17, 2011

I’m not suggesting that anyone run out and invest their hard-earned money in this, but our friend Amanda Edmonds, the executive director of the Ypsi-based not-for-profit Growing Hope has what I think is an intriguing idea. She wants to buy up cheap Ypsi land that’s being sold at auction, and repurpose it for urban agriculture. […]