This is a video from last year’s IRTA convention. Catherine Fitts talks about the role of barter in the “new” economy. Her assertion is that the global economy is breaking down and that barter will fill the role of traditional currency in global transactions. It sounds like there are a number of people thinking that [...]
In this week’s edition of the Barter News Weekly we: Congratulate Don Mardak of International Monetary Systems for being inducted in the IRTA Hall of Fame Report on a new municipal barter web startup Report more of the silliness from HE-5 Resources Corp Tyler rants about the general lack of customer service in the industry. [...]
In this special extra edition of the Barter News Weekly, we interview Catherine and Barry Cohen of Barter 21 who attended the IRTA Conference last week. Watch and see what happened…
In this week’s installment of the Barter News Weekly: We explore more bizarre news from HE-5 Resources Corporation Announce the arrival of another internet barter exchange startup – AssetFair.com The opening of another office of Astra UK in Hong Kong Discuss the barter program the government of Bulgaria has instituted Interview Mark Johnson of WNY [...]
I found this on a Bulgarian news site, but apparently in the wake of 300,000 Bulgarians losing their jobs, the government has approved a legislated program where bonafide companies can give trade for food instead of money to their employees. They have mandated limits on this form of compensation, but it makes sense to me…if [...]
We’ve seen quite an uptick in internet barter startups in the last couple of months. Today I found another…
In my search for barter and trade related news I stumbled on this article from the Bismarck Tribune about a group of people that used to get together in the park to swap whatever they had for the stuff that they wanted, back in the ’60s and ’70s. Now they are using Facebook as the [...]
I found this, and am going to include it in today’s Barter News Weekly. If Marc Hatch is involved, you can assume the media he is going to get is legitimate. I have to say, when I first saw this press release, I thought it was a good gimick, a nice way to sell barter, [...]
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