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Jan
31
Local investing offered as solution
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Photo credit: Valparaiso Indiana at Dawn by MinimalistPhotography101.com
Elias Crim writes in ValpoLife that local investing might be the way to save community businesses and explains how people are coming together to form “crowdfunding” investments.
… (F)rom your local base you can know (local businesses) and even invest in them, maybe for 10% of your portfolio. In exchange for accepting some geographical risk and probably a lower return, you get the satisfaction of supporting local job creation (that’s how it’s really done, folks!), having a stake in the community and helping to sustain it long-term.
Local investing (or locavesting), while not recommended to be a sole investment strategy, does offer a way to diversify investments in an era where many trades are made by automated algorithms disconnected from anything but mathematics and to possibly save endangered communities passed over by modern finance.
Jan
31
Indianapolis zip line looks fun
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Video: A zip line allows Indianapolis visitors to fly over South Capital Avenue and the Super Bowl village.
Football fans can fly over the crowds gathering in Indianapolis for this year’s Super Bowl. A zip line soaring eight stories over South Capital Avenue for 800 feet allows dare devils the opportunity to take a thrilling ride over the Super Bowl village downtown.
I hadn’t planned on going to Indianapolis any time soon, but it looks like it might be a fun day trip to go visit the Super Bowl village to see the zip line and experience the sights and sounds of what may be one of the biggest events to grace downtown Indianapolis.
