German Sterligov, legendary commodities trader and newly crowned king of barter in Russia has swapped business plans. The Anti-Crisis Settlement and Accounting Center has changed from being a barter exchange to being a repository of gold for the common man. Apparently the negative publicity created by the lawsuit by one of the licensees of his [...]
In my daily scouring of the Internet for barter related news, I often run in to articles written in major publications and on popular websites that describe a post-apocalyptic reality based around direct barter scenarios. YouTube is a great repository of such stories, with wild-eyed survivalists encouraging the masses to invest in the three G’s [...]
News.goldseek.com provides another explanation of the history of currency, barter, and the application of gold as the best currency available. More and more of these kinds of sites are cropping up all over the internet, and informercials constantly convince Joe Plumber to send in his gold jewelry and get cash for it.
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