COVID-19 deaths spike and hospitals run out of beds as many states reap the consequences of poor pandemic management and reopening too early.
Read more...Yves here. Readers sometimes ask for success stories to show that there are possible paths out our present economic and social morass. The Basque has long operated a collective ownership model centered around Mondragon. And it has been successful in protecting the community from economic crises. I was in Portugal and Spain, by happenstance doing […]
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