Community Wealth

A Three Part Series Dedicated to Exploring the New Meaning of Success Part I: What is Success? Over a brief holiday break from work, I received an email from Rolling Stone magazine with a series of “classic” article links; one intrigued me: it was a 1994 article titled “Success Doesn’t Suck,” about the musician Kurt […]

Attending my first finance class as an MBA student, the first question my professor asked was “what is the purpose of a business?” He received many answers, but the correct answer was “to maximize shareholder value.” Now, there may be another way to correctly answer the question: the B-Corp. In the conventional business world maximizing […]

The Monadnock Domestic Product Parts I & II of this series focused on credit card processing and investing, respectively. I argued for increased localization of both of these systems because money from both activities leaves the community unnecessarily, in my view. And truthfully there are many more of these systems we could explore, but for […]

Part II:Retirement Investing In Part I of this series I focused on localizing credit card processing, working from the assumption that consumers love credit cards, but the fees associated with those transactions are in many cases leaving our community. Credit card transaction fees are primarily something to worry about for small business owners; the topic […]

Local has come a long way in just the past decade; it has gone from the mantra of a few, to a legitimate economic driver. And I celebrate that, but I’m also frustrated, because we can do better. No matter how much we shop locally, produce locally, and support local, there are a few big […]