The current global recession has placed enormous financial pressure on every business sector, every level of government and virtually every individual on the planet. The prolonged economic downturn has tested peoples’ confidence in once-respected financial institutions and government-managed monetary systems. The recent proliferation of barter exchanges, community currency systems, online barter sites, government sponsored trade [...]
I received word from Ron Whitney of IRTA recently that the article I reported on in the Examiner, the article reporting an attack on barter currencies, was not factually correct by any means. From Ron: Tyler: The slant of Mr. Shortgen’s article in the Examiner.com is incorrect. First, you need to read the revised article [...]
From examiner.com: The Federal government is trying to establish bartering private currency of any type as an illegal enterprise in a false interpretation of the court’s recent conviction of Liberty Dollar’s owner Bernard Von NotHaus. In a case where the government used conspiracy and counterfeit charges against NotHaus to establish that he intended to mint [...]
In the wake of the economic crisis in Greece that almost took down the EU’s currency system, Greeks are turning to barter and barter minded ideas to keep things flowing for themselves. The link below goes to a BBC report on barter in Greece. They disabled embedding or I’d just let you watch it here. [...]
BCL Soft and Barter21 recently added a “Live Help” feature to their website. This allows you to browse the site and immediately request live help if you have a question about the software, switching from your current platform to Barter21 or if you want to start a barter exchange and don’t know what to do [...]
Originally posted by Barry Cohen of Barter 21. There has been a lot of talk, rumors, and grumblings in the Complementary Currency world regarding a Guidance Memo release by FinCEN – the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury. The subject of the memo was “Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Persons Administering, [...]
IRTA wants to make the upcoming September 19th thru 21st 2013 Las Vegas Venetian Convention the best ever. The need some input on how they can make the programming for the convention be fresh and engaging. If you are interested in helping with that, take a few minutes to answer the five short questions at: [...]
