So what's the big draw? One reason to embrace local currency, according to John Poling, co-founder of Cascadia Hour Exchange in Portland, Ore., is worry over an uncertain economic future.

In order to keep the BerkShares in circulation, merchants that try to exchange the currency for U.S. dollars at the bank get charged a 5% fee. More than 3 million BerkShares have been issued since ...

I ventured from the suburbs across the border into the big city the other day, unaware of any need to stop at the foreign currency exchange. I realized my mistake as soon as I attempted to pay for ...

This week, Roper's darkly comedic new play, "She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange," premieres ... And I believe in comedy. It's not funny unless it's true, so comedy has to be true.

My introduction to funny money probably came with my first vistt to Chuck E. Cheese. In addition to its extensive collection of arcade games, creepy animatronic figures, and ball cages filled with ...

Here, I’ll explore the idea of carving out a pile of “funny money,” address the potential ... indexes for investable products, such as exchange-traded funds, sponsored by the financial ...

"[W]e wanted to try to localize our economy to make it more self-sustained and self-sufficient by relying on our own resources, and we found that a local currency tends to do all of these things ...