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Big Horn County News: “Launching Scouts”… 24 Aug 2013 | 04:29 am
By Andrew Turck Big Horn County News Nearly a thousand tribal members in colorful powwow regalia surrounded the arbor Friday night at Crow Fair, the largest gathering of Native Americans in the Nort...
Community merchants benefit from community currencies 22 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Community currencies benefit the community as a whole on several levels, both social and economic. They foster a sense of pride of ownership in the community and encourage local cooperation. They prot...
Community currencies have a long history 21 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
With the U.S. dollar at a historic low and the Federal Reserve continuing to inflate, interest in alternative currencies is growing. Newcomers may think community currencies are a recent phenomenon. A...
Community leaders benefit from community currencies 20 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
Community currencies empower individuals and local businesses to take control of their financial futures back from central economic planners and Wall Street. That doesn’t just benefit producers and co...
Stephen Macaskill: Economic Knowledge Centers and Decentralized Currency 20 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
Stephen Macaskill of Amagi Metals and FEE board member joins Open Currency Update with Kurt Wallace for ‘Stephen Macaskill: Economic Knowledge Centers and Decentralized Currency’. Stephen shares some ...
Community currencies benefit consumers as much as local businesses 17 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
With all of the benefits community currencies can bring to local businesses, the benefits to individual consumers are often overlooked. These include social, economic and even environmental benefits. ...
Crow Currency: “Not Dollars but Scouts” 16 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
Ceivert LaForge hopes that people buying and selling goods and services on the Crow Indian Reservation are soon dealing with “scouts,” not with U.S. dollars. The scouts would be copper, silver and go...
Is the U.S. Dollar out of borrowed time? 15 Aug 2013 | 03:21 am
Longtime critic of the Federal Reserve and hard money advocate Ron Paul debuted his new online channel on Monday. Paul maintained his position that the U.S. Dollar is being systematically devalued and...
Crow Fair features a host of cultural activities to spend new currency on 14 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
Coin of the Realm (COTR) will help the Apsáalooke Nation launch its new hard money currency at its 95th Annual Crow Fair Celebration in Montana August 15-19. The currency will be used as tokens for th...
Opencurrency Update 12 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
Crow Nation Sovereign Currency Launch A few weeks ago we reported the Crow Nation’s introduction of their Battle of Little Big Horn commemorative silver medallion. What we didn’t report is that creat...
