{"id":10344,"date":"2015-07-24T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2015-07-24T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:04:15","slug":"local-currency-money-for-us-not-the-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10344","title":{"rendered":"Local Currency&#8211;Money For Us, Not the Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peakmoment.tv\/videos\/local-currency-money-for-us-not-the-bankers-292\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Currency&#8211;Money For Us, Not the Bankers<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u201cBack in the 1930s on the Olympic peninsula, people were paying their taxes in alternative money\u2026The banks shut them down. This is an example of the monopoly the banks have, and the level of control they have over peoples\u2019 economic lives\u2026 People need to know [local currency] is a possibility, an option, a realistic tactical and powerful way to take back your economic power from the bankers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u201d Fourth Corner Exchange co-founder Francis Ayley says the current debt-based global money system is\u00a0 an unsustainable Ponzi-scheme that will crash. By contrast, local currencies are unlimited, based on whatever members want to exchange. He and director Lia Ayley share the nuts and bolts for new members starting to exchange, how values are set, and exchanges involving both Life Dollars and US dollars. The biggest challenge, they say, is changing our mindset from the scarcity built into the existing monetary system to one based on relationships, cooperation and plenty. \u00a0[fourthcornerexchange.org] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Watch our 2006 interview\u00a0of Francis Ayley: \u00a0Local Currencies \u2013 Replacing Scarcity with Trust\u00a0(episode 49).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"> &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/peakmoment.tv\/videos\/local-currency-money-for-us-not-the-bankers-292\/#sthash.tdRFH7VS.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Currency&#8211;Money For Us, Not the Bankers \u201cBack in the 1930s on the Olympic peninsula, people were paying their taxes in alternative money\u2026The banks shut them down. This is an example of the monopoly the banks have, and the level of control they have over peoples\u2019 economic lives\u2026 People need to know [local currency] is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[7502,3172,63,951,7505,7504,7503,7501,489,536,5664,2942],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-alternative-money","tag-bankers","tag-banks","tag-currency","tag-debt-based-money-system","tag-fourth-corner-exchange","tag-francis-ayley","tag-local-currency","tag-localisation","tag-money","tag-monopoly","tag-ponzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}