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UWDude
04-18-2010, 03:44 PM
YouTube - Argentina: Surviving without money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDKeQ4IACJ4)

What a "competing currency" might look like, if legal.

Tow interesting facets of their "global exchange currency" or "social currency"

1. A new user gets 50 free "credits"
2. the credits have a shelf life, they expire after a certain time, so building up wealth in them is impossible.

UWDude
04-18-2010, 03:53 PM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haiti/view/economy_tent_city.html

Also, the economy of post quake Haiti, another very interesting look at economy.

MsDoodahs
04-18-2010, 05:09 PM
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