Below please find the latest commentary from Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals and author of the hit economic parable How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes. Imagine a day when you go ...

With soccer transfer fees spiraling ever higher, we estimate what the world’s best players would be worth in Adam Smith’s barter economy. In 1776, Adam Smith published his highly influential work The ...

Since the beginning of March, unattended folding tables have begun popping up at intersections and the end of people’s driveways, offering everyday goods like rice, a jar of jam or bread. Take what ...

While stuck indoors during the pandemic, items we want — and sometimes need — are harder to locate. Web retailers offer a quick fix, but what if we need online tutoring, IT help, or athletic coaching?

Ski towns, despite the strong push for modernization, retain vestigial traits of a time long gone. Driven by an inherent insularity and the interpersonal connections forged by living in close ...

Until about a month ago, Ari Koontz had never traded food with their neighbors in Providence, Rhode Island. But when Koontz decided to leave part of an extra-large batch of chocolate chip cookies on ...

What does Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” have to do with the Web’s economy? The popular refrain “thats the way you do it, Get your money for nothin get your chicks for free,” can be remixed Web 2.0 ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Laid off in December, with two children to feed, Tammie Bryant flung an ad online, hoping for a few bites. "Mom Bartering for it all/Life," she typed. "We were just not making ...

Last week, the New York Post put a $1.5 billion rumored for sale price tag on YouTube, up 50% from its $1 billion “name your YouTube sales price” target from a few months earlier. While it is a ...

Many rural Americans engage in cashless barter systems to get food and firewood for heating and cooking. They value self-sufficiency, making them wary of government intervention. By Jana Meisenholder ...

Since the beginning of March, unattended folding tables have begun popping up at intersections and the end of people’s driveways, offering everyday goods like rice, a jar of jam or bread. Take what ...