There are a number of forces causing small business income and equity to decline that are not related to fundamental economic productivity.
Many of these forces revolve around overt and covert economic warfare over local human capital, economic assets and markets. This war is between large financial and corporate interests and small business and families.
This war reflects a commitment of G-8 central banks and governments to use official resources to serve larger interests, including criminal. The pressure on our leadership is to maintain our global economic position which depends on warfare, cheap access to natural resources, preserving the dollar as the global reserve currency and building a dominant position in space.
This dynamic creates insurmountable risks for any venture capital or investment effort focused on North American small business and efforts to circulate local retirement savings and investment capital to business and farming incubation. It makes it impossible to create ways for such equity investments to be exchanged, priced and traded in liquid form. It makes it uneconomic or dangerous to to use precious metals to develop local currencies.
At the heart of this issue is the need for strong families – whether they found businesses or invest in them. How can we attract a new generation of leadership and capital in ways that build, circulate and liquefy family businesses and wealth?
We are also managing in the face of a number of wild cards — the most significant one is geophysical changes. Finding ways of providing reliable, timely information about these issues to small business leadership are part of the mix.
Hence, we sorely need a mapping of risk issues and a positive process for discussing them. Then we can develop practical actions and ongoing information systems. If we can realign interests, including between large and small investors, we can diminish the obstacles that are draining existing businesses now and keeping entrepreneurs from starting new ones. Take away these hidden taxes and dirty tricks and much will emerge simply from “life’s longing for itself.”
I am confident new alignments are possible. Now that essentially all community capital has been harvested or mortgaged, there is a growing incentive for the next generation of entrepreneurs to create new wealth. Also, given significant increase in political controls, the risks of integrating new or suppressed technology is diminishing.
If we want to create income for the growing unemployed – whether in North America or around the globe – we are going to need to reduce the risk and dirty tricks that drain small businesses and farms and the families that create, nurture and invest in them.
We are also going to address the issue of cui bono – who benefits? Will the money that has been stolen simply return to invest and so gain all the benefits of a new round of effort, or will the cycle create new diversified wealth?
