I think that if deflation is ahead, this is the best climate for local/regional/internation (&#39;network&quot; local) economic development, in conjunction with development of formal sharing and commons. Participants in the US economy with surplus capacity are more likely in this climate to take a chance at modifying and re-working surplus capacity towards <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">local/regional/internation (&#39;network&quot; local) economic and commons activity. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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