The rebirth of the barter system is underway in America. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/barter-back-locked-down-americans-are-swapping-malbec-masks #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed #zerohedge

Americans who stocked up on rolls in the coronavirus lockdown are willing to make trades By Joe Barrett https://www.wsj.com/articles/still-cant-buy-toilet-paper-you-can-barter-for-it-11586614556 #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Briana Erickson https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/facebook-group-lets-valley-residents-barter-for-what-they-need-2004450/ #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Lindsey Reynolds https://www.treehugger.com/economics/will-pandemic-bring-back-bartering.html #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Katie Reid Nextdoor suddenly looks like Oregon Trail 2.0 https://onezero.medium.com/lemons-for-yeast-for-flour-the-bartering-economy-explodes-on-nextdoor-4eeac05ddaff #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Olga Kharif https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/the-return-of-the-barter-economy-swapping-eggs-for-toilet-paper #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Emily Cureton, Heard on All Things Considered Orders to stay home leave many people glued to their screens. In rural Oregon, some people are turning their time on social media into tangible help for neighbors coping with coronavirus. "I never thought I would say this, but we're using Facebook to express love to our neighbors in really meaningful ways," said Morgan Schmidt, moderator of a group for Bend, Ore. residents, where housebound people can crowdsource help with dail

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 health insurance, three weeks ago. Now she has been forced to take the money she had saved for a U.S. citizenship application and use it to pay bills, including her April rent. She is not sure how she and her 2-year-old son will make it through May. She has applied for unemployment benefits, which could take weeks to arrive. “We’re worried

By Krista Torres Anyway, Twitter user @ChrisKlemens (who also happens to be a famous YouTuber) had lettuce he was willing to barter for Chrissy's homemade banana bread... For complete article see BuzzFeed #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed @chrissyteigen @BuzzFeed

To view story see NBC LA #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed @GavinNewsom @NBCLA

By Cecilia Saixue Watt Students at Vermont’s Middlebury College created a spreadsheet offering storage space, food and more after campus closed – and now they’re ready to give back For complete article see The Guardian #barter #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

Around 7000 years ago money was invented; some would say that was about the time our problems began. The global economy now relies on various currencies to represent the value of goods and services. But in some situations, like emerging economies or within smaller communities, money is in short supply and those goods and services themselves can function as currency. Barter systems provide a more direct route for people to get what they need in exchange for something they have

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 decided to do something about it. Kline, an active member at the Mulholland Tennis Club, launched a website and app called have|need. Put simply in a recent note to his current investors and partners, Kline stated: “We all have things we don’t need and need things we don’t have. While millions of people have smartphones and internet access,

By Benjamin Golub Some key dimensions that determine whether money or barter is better are: (i) separability of money transactions from enjoyment of the good or service in question, so that financial transactions don't mess up the creation of value; (ii) credibility/stability of the money being used; (iii) complexity of the economy -- the degree to which workers are specialized and goods are differentiated, making it unlikely that the producer of what you want is a consumer o