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Under the Paperweight, June 7-13, 2009

Glendale, California’s local government role in a national economic recovery.

No State Budget Yet: The Message for Glendale?

California has no state budget, and Glendale should be making its own economic plans for difficult times.

Under the Paperweight Today: How Politics Has Slowed U.S. Broadband Deployment

Glendale, California and other communities throughout the country don’t have a world-class broadband system because the current regulatory structure, and the cooperation of politicians with telecom interests, have impeded progress.

Outside of Washington and Wall Street, Who Hasn’t Figured Out That A Debt-Based Economy Isn’t Sustainable?

Throwing more and more money at banks is a bad idea. A debt-based economy is the problem, not the solution.

The Answer to Too Much Debt Is NOT More Debt

Voices in the wilderness keep telling all of us what is really happening and where our Ponzi scheme economy has brought us. But the financial sector keeps asking us to invest more money in this losing scheme. Today’s Wall Street Journal front page says
some of the country’s biggest property developers have become the latest to [...]