Second, there are american monetary institute style thinkers who are less informed about economics but are interested. They are hardly completely glued to their preconceived notions. I've watched as we've discussed issues out how people have learned an incredible amount in a short amount of time. Part of alternative banking is learning. Third this email completely ignores the third group of academics and bloggers. Yves Smith is a consistent participant as is that "liberal geek" (allegedly) Matt Stoller. Then Michael Hudson and a couple of his friends come around to. There are other people who participate also that are hard to peg. but it's far too simplistic to declare it a meeting of a bunch of ignoramuses and bank lovers as i perceive this email to imply. By all means, i encourage anyone to come out and participate but I think this email is very misleading about this working group.
-- -Nathan Tankus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------