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Dollar Stores Are Leeching the Economic Vitality of Communities Across the U.S.

The Strong Towns Podcast

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The Importance of Local Self-Responsibility

Aaron Carroll: We have a financial system where the bankers make money when their borrowers succeed. He says it doesn't really matter if the borrowers succeed fail; it's a flow. Carroll: How do we emerge some kind of local self-reliance, local resilience out of this broader flow that is designed to be the exact opposite? The task we have is to protect local communities from the insanity around it, he says.

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