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Charles Eisenstein wants to devalue your money to save the economy

By Erik Curren | August 15, 2012

Charles Eisenstein

Imagine if you had a warehouse full of bread that would go stale in three days. You'd want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Of course, you wouldn't try to sell it at premium prices. Instead, you'd want to hold a liquidation sale. Or, maybe even not go through the bother of trying to sell it at all — just give it away. In that way, you'd earn both gratitude and favors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Charles Eisenstein, demurrage, economic growth, inflation, local currency, local economy, relocalization

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

Wyoming apocalypse plan: crazy or visionary?

By Erik Curren | February 28, 2012

I-80 in Wyoming

The media has been having some fun the last few days over a bill that passed the Wyoming House last week calling for the state to establish a "state continuity task force" to prepare the state for the unimaginable. House Bill 85 authorizes $16,000 to convene a panel to study how a variety of national emergencies could impact Wyoming, including an economic meltdown, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: emergency preparedness, local currency, peak oil, Wyoming

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