Comments on: Predicting an end to recession http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/11/19/predicting-an-end-to-recession/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phil Hood http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/11/19/predicting-an-end-to-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-27743 Phil Hood Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:58:32 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/?p=183#comment-27743 Anthony, Hi, I haven't been on your site in a while. It's terrific. You raise a great question. There is great danger in the increased centralized control of banking going on in the US. As companies like Wells Fargo bulk up by eating failing competitors the achieve a size at which SME customers become less attractive to them. This is a natural outcome of size. I can think of many examples. Where mass collaboration might be useful could be in enabling genuinely local, higher value, open source supply chains. Question: How could one make a local economic ecosystem competitive with a a lowest price/broadest selection Wal-Mart global economy? Anthony,
Hi, I haven’t been on your site in a while. It’s terrific.
You raise a great question. There is great danger in the increased centralized control of banking going on in the US. As companies like Wells Fargo bulk up by eating failing competitors the achieve a size at which SME customers become less attractive to them. This is a natural outcome of size. I can think of many examples.

Where mass collaboration might be useful could be in enabling genuinely local, higher value, open source supply chains. Question: How could one make a local economic ecosystem competitive with a
a lowest price/broadest selection Wal-Mart global economy?

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