You name it, you likely can trade it in this new, old economy. Rachelle Dixon of ... In some communities, the barter system never really went away. The nonprofit Center for a New American Dream ...

The primary difference between barter and currency systems is that a currency system uses an agreed-upon form of paper or coin money as an exchange system rather than directly trading goods and ...

Russia and China are planning to revive the age-old practice of barter trade to get around Western ... banks from the widely used SWIFT messaging system. However, this strategy has been hitting ...

Instead of going back to a barter system, the colonial governments issued IOUs that traded as currency. The first instance was in Canada (then a French colony) in 1685 when soldiers were issued ...