Summary: Breaking away from the Wall Street investment trap and creating a resilient community and personal life in the local community economy modelsMichael Shuman is one of world’s leading thought leaders and visionaries on sustainable and local community economies. He is the director of research for Cutting Edge Capital and the director of economic development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is also a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. Michael crosses the country to help develop and guide community-based economic efforts that encourage investment at the local level and outside of Wall Street.He has degrees in economics and international relations from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School. Michael has published 7 books, his latest is “Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity.” His website is CuttingEdgeCapital.co
