Share or be square: Las Vegas has all the answers

Housing, local transport, even air travel – Las Vegas is the capital of the growing 'sharing economy'

Columnist Edie Lush

The ‘sharing economy’ ball keeps rolling. This week Debbie Wosskow’s report for the government suggested that Britain could be at the forefront of the global sharing economy if a few vital changes were made (namely, deal with the tax and insurance issues).

Also, BMW joined the ranks of those who share when it announced it was introducing its DriveNow service in London, a competitor to ZipCar and described by the Financial Times as ‘Boris Bikes for cars’.

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Edie Lush is a journalist and communications coach. She is executive editor of Hub Culture and has been associate editor of Spectator Business, a political analyst for Hedge Fund Omega Partners and UBS, and a reporter for Bloomberg Television.