Shun local small businesses like green gates, greenling and little blue stem. if you use financial speak, most of the things we want to preserve in our communities don t make the grade. that s why he started an organization called slow money. it makes our communities better places to live through agriculture. it s investors and entrepreneurs committed to rebuilding local food systems. this is a local angel investor. he puts some of his money behind greenling and a few other slow money businesses. investing in a local farm, say that s just struggling to get a few thousand dollars in the door to get another piece of equipment to allow them to feed more people in their community. it s not going to ipo anytime soon. he s pulling some of his money out of wall street and on to main street. put all the businesses
Venture capitalist. he understands why investors shun local small businesses like green gate, greenling, and little blue stem. if you re using financial speak, most of the things that we actually want to preserve in our communities don t make the grade. that s why he started an organization called slow money. to encourage investments that pay off by making our communities better places to live through agriculture. it s a network of investors and entrepreneurs who are committed to rebuilding local food systems. robby larkin is a local austin angel investor. and a member of the slow money chapter in austin. he put some of his money behind greenling and a few other slow money businesses. investing in a local farm, say, that s just struggling maybe to get a few thousand dollars in the door so they can get another piece of equipment that can allow them to feed more people in their community, that s not going to ipo any time soon. he s part of a movement that s pulling some of it
Anything here anymore, we have $14 trillion in debt, it s difficult to see in the way we re looking at the world right now and our country right now where the engine is. where s the engine? it s going to be going to have to be job growth. we re going to have to get jobs back to fix these other problems, in particular, housing, and steve says maybe not a double-dip recession for the economy. how about a double-dip recession in housing? we have that. martha: and mortgages one in four mortgages are under water in this country, steve. this gets to the so-called cure. spending has never cured an economic recession. massive money printing has never done it. we should have learned that in the 1970s. like doctors are all bleeding you, then wondering why the patient is sluggish and not getting better. let s go what ronald reagan did, slow money, tax rates, deregulation instead of regulation. this economy would take off like a rocket. martha: president obama, obviously that s not his phi