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
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