One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished Since 2008. Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis
By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine
Here’s a statistic that ought to alarm anyone interested in rebuilding local economies and redirecting the flow of capital away from Wall Street and toward more productive ends
Why Local Ownership Matters
By Brian Emerson, Stacy Mitchell, Local Bites
In this episode, Local Bites interviews Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about the multiple social, economic and environmental benefits of local business ownership and community-scaled financial institutions.
The bookstore after Borders: Protecting creativity from consolidation
By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine
The wave of chain store consolidation now underway adds new urgency to calls for a reinvigorated antitrust policy and a return to the idea that a competitive economy is one made up of lots of competitors, many of them small and independent.
Seeding small business: 5 Ideas from Detroit
By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine
At the end of my visit, I came away feeling that Detroit has quite a bit to teach the rest of us about how to build a local economy from the ground up.