Kensington Meets the Mayor

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Tuesday December 02, 2008 · 10:09 AM PST

2008/12/02 · 10:09

Our CommonWealth visited Mayor Michael Nutter's meeting with Kensington residents last night.

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Monday December 01, 2008 · 9:39 AM PST

2008/12/01 · 09:39

How can a city that is stressed by the current economic meltdown get beyond hard times? How can we, as a city, ensure that this never happens again? What about all the other places that will end up being left behind in our current economic crisis? We will get there but lets start in Philly.

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 7:45 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 07:45

Cycles. Boom and Bust. That's Life. Or is it?

I am an editor of a really and wide-ranging newsletter read by local elected officials, non-profit heads and policy makers. We get short, sharp essays from some very good writers, who have studied the truth behind the hype of neoclassical and establishment economists who have made more errors in prediction and omission in the past 100 years than we can count.

Those errors (or the mirror-image errors in the old Leninist systems) have made life a living hell for billions world-wide.

Here, Ed Dodson a retired housing specialist for Fannie Mae gives his take on why we're here, and what we can do to get out from under, for good.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 11:43 AM PDT

2008/10/29 · 11:43

"Bust? Of Course. Use the tax code to curb land speculation, or the crashes will continue".

My colleague, Mason Gaffney has been setting up 'em up and knocking 'em down for decades with an unerring critical eye. Using a geoconomist analysis of what causes poverty, what causes the boom and bust of business cycles, and what alternatives exist to free-booting capitalism or command and control diktats...

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 1:11 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 13:11

Past Crises, The Current Crisis, Future Crises: It starts with Land.

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Kensington Meets the Mayor

Realizing Philadelphia's Potential (and the rest of the country too)

Why our Current Economic Mess Was Foretold

The Great Crash of 2008 By Mason Gaffney

The Current Crisis