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Kick Wall Street to the curb, get $15 trillion

By Erik Curren | March 5, 2012

invest in good times

It was only a matter of time after we started eating local food and Buying Local from main street stores that we'd start hearing about local money. It started with local currencies in such places as inflation-wracked Argentina and the wealthy Berkshires of western Massachusetts. These experiments in modern complementary currency spawned dozens of scrips around the world from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Economy Tagged With: Buy Local, co-ops, credit unions, local currency, local economy, local food, Peter Buffett, Wall Street, Warren Buffett

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