[ExI] Bottom-up currencies

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Fri Mar 11 01:13:23 UTC 2011


On 03/10/2011 07:13 AM, spike wrote:
> ... On Behalf Of Emlyn
> Subject: [ExI] Bottom-up currencies
>
>> ...It strikes me that there are many circumstances (eg: geographic or
> cultural communities) where the ability to form a special purpose currency
> would be really useful...Other thoughts?--Emlyn
>
>
> You and plenty of others are thinking along those lines.  This explains the
> recent popularity of gold.  I see the price of silver is going crazy too.
> Precious metals are the currency of choice when the US government is
> spending itself into oblivion, and Greece is destabilizing the euro.  On the
> euro, I am waiting to see if the Germany will just say no.

Not just Greece.  Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain are all 
possible default timebombs.

- samantha



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