Reuters: From Bartering to Begging for Relief, Struggling Americans Confront April Rent
By Joseph Ax, Daniel Trotta Alfa Cristina Morales, 21, lost her job as a line cook at an Oakland, California, coffee shop, along with her...
Josh C. Kline
- Mar 30, 2020
NPR: In Oregon, Neighbors Use Social Media To Offer — And Ask For — Help
By Emily Cureton, Heard on All Things Considered Orders to stay home leave many people glued to their screens. In rural Oregon, some...
Josh C. Kline
- Mar 26, 2020
BuzzFeed: Chrissy Tiegen Barters Banana Bread For Lettuce During COVID-19 Outbreak
By Krista Torres Anyway, Twitter user @ChrisKlemens (who also happens to be a famous YouTuber) had lettuce he was willing to barter for...
Josh C. Kline
- Mar 20, 2020
NBC: Bartering Making a Comeback Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
To view story see NBC LA #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed @GavinNewsom @NBCLA
Josh C. Kline
- Mar 18, 2020
The Guardian: Social Distancing Is a Must – But Many Are Ready to Contribute Even More
By Cecilia Saixue Watt Students at Vermont’s Middlebury College created a spreadsheet offering storage space, food and more after campus...
Josh C. Kline
- Oct 8, 2019
MSFT Startup Stories: Mobile Barter Platform Swaps Things You Don’t Need for Things You Don’t Have
Around 7000 years ago money was invented; some would say that was about the time our problems began. The global economy now relies on...
Josh C. Kline
- Dec 9, 2018
USTA Community Spotlight: Connecting Those Who Have With Those Who Need
By Steve Pratt Steve Miller, Steffi Graf and Josh Kline Los Angeles resident Josh Kline saw an opportunity to help those in need, and he...
Josh C. Kline
- Aug 1, 2018
VaynerBarter 001: Looking to Barter With Beverage and Snack Entrepreneurs
By Gary Vaynerchuk One of the things that I’m fascinated by that has emerged in my world within the last three to five years is the...
Gillian Tett
- Apr 17, 2018
How Big Tech Brought Back the Barter Economy
‘What consumers and tech companies have essentially been doing is bartering services for personal data’ by Gillian Tett...
Dan Sanchez
- Aug 27, 2017
Foundation for Economic Education: Trade Is What Makes Us Human
By Dan Sanchez It was the larger "collective brain" of homo sapiens that made the difference. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith...
Josh C. Kline
- Aug 31, 2014
Quora: In what situations is a barter economy better than a monetary economy?
By Benjamin Golub Some key dimensions that determine whether money or barter is better are: (i) separability of money transactions from...