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Harold and Our Lady of the Caramel Frappuccino by Gene Sager Down the street there lives a young man that people call "different." He does things slowly and ponders things most of us take for granted. Sometimes I sit with Harold and his grandmother in their kitchen over tea and listen to the details as they recount the episodes in Harold's life. Interesting Simplicity Articles
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into the Nature of Slow Money:
The faster money goes, the more it disconnects from natural time and the more it disconnects from people. “Should we be surprised”, Tasch asks, “that money has become so attenuated to capital markets and so separated from the needs of people”? This former venture capitalist is looking for a new paradigm that serves people first, not just the markets themselves. His book is timely - as we attempt to dig ourselves out from the 2008 credit collapse, can anyone doubt that they need repair? Tasch explains that capital markets developed at the beginning of the industrial revolution, when new industries needed sources of finance. The world had a small population, vast untapped resources. Unlimited growth seemed to make sense. Who could have foreseen that growth would one day be limited by rapidly diminishing energy, and natural resources? Tasch has credibility of a former market insider. When he says today’s fast money is rarely patient enough to invest in businesses like small organic produce farms, you figure he’s speaking from experience. In “Slow Money”, he proposes a new, more patient kind of market based on “nurture capital”, one that values the restoration of local communities, clean water and soil fertility as much as it values growth. A market that provides sustainable industries like community supported agriculture with the capital they need. The unique premise of “Slow Money” is that it weaves two opposites, financial markets and soil,together. More New Version of Your Money or Your Life now available!
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The Ultimate Cheapskate by Dan Zak, The Washinton Post Slow Money by Woody Tasch Reviewed by Jonathan Freedman More Reading recommendations from gettingalife.org
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Harold
walked down his driveway early one peaceful sabbath morning and
was shocked to see what he called "a careless scene."
Someone had thrown their fast food trash on the driveway.
A napkin here, a straw there, and a plastic cup. It was clearly
a drive-by littering by a careless person on the go. Harold,
peaceful soul that he is, was not so much angry as pensive.
Hurled from a speeding car, the cup had bounced on the driveway,
then skidded and, spewing out the straw and some foamy liquid as
it rolled, came to rest in the dirt on the shoulder. A trail
of stains marked its path on the asphalt. 
Money,
writes Woody Tasch, only knows one speed, faster. It was unthinkable
only a few decades ago, but now trillions of dollars circulate through
financial markets every day, zipping around the world in cyberspace,
bundled into financial instruments of dizzying complexity. 
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