Thursday, August 13, 2009

 

Local currencies cash in on recession

Communities in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Arizona and elsewhere print their own money to encourage shoppers to patronize local businesses. Local money was last popular during the Great Depression.

Reporting from Pittsboro, N.C. - The stimulus for this mill town turned artist's colony arrived in the form of green bills bearing sketches of herons, turtles and trees...

LA Times: Local currencies cash in on recession

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