The news is that paper traders have pulled their money out of the financial markets and put it in commodities, which creates an artificial scarcity of those commodities, which pushes the price up and makes retail prices higher, etc. The nugget at the end of the article I read was this: Hutchinson calls for countries [...]
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Using Barter and Trade With Employees
Today I ran across an article that nicely articulates what I have talked about for ten years: using barter as a source of employee bonuses and perks. I used to put together packages of dentistry, massage, chiropractic, and certificates to family doctors and sell them to small businesses as a way to add to their [...]
Another Way Businesses are Using the Internet to Barter
I found this video in my daily search for new barter/trade related news. Check this out…a landscaping company who puts up a video with the intention of creating more business through a YouTube video about how they barter. I think this is a great example of taking the crappy economy in to your own control [...]
