David Korten Needs Quotations

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.