By Catherine Austin Fitts

We are all investors.

We invest our time. We invest our attention. We grow careers. We build enterprises. We save. We buy homes and real estate. We buy and sell stocks and bonds. We add payroll deductions to retirement accounts and pensions. We purchase gold and silver. We use currency. We donate and tithe our money and volunteer our time. We patronize banks and businesses. When you think about it, our daily lives are a continuous flow of investment choices.

The Community Investment Opportunity

When I first discovered the Internet, I was inspired by its investment possibilities. I saw the potential to dramatically expand our powers to invest together to create a more prosperous and peaceful world. I started an investment bank in Washington. We built a successful advisory business helping the Federal Housing Administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as their lead financial advisor. We reinvested all of our profits in software tools and databases that could accelerate investment in communities and improve the circulation of financial capital and new technology to small businesses and farms. The potential for building new alignments between living systems and financial markets within a place felt electric.

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