From jerome.blanc at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr  Thu Oct  9 06:07:41 2008
From: jerome.blanc at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Blanc?=)
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:41 +0200
Subject: [cc_research] Crisis and CCs
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Hi all,

Given the deepening crisis (in banking, finance and the basic economy) 
in the US as well as in other western countries, I wondered if there 
were signs of rise of CCs schemes ?
Are Ithaca Hour-like systems spreading all over the US ? or the number 
of users suddenly rising ?
Are time banking developing more than before ?
Are LETS awakening ?
and so on...

Recent history gives us an evidence of a boom of CCs, related with the 
collapse of the country, soon followed by a collapse of CCs after they 
failed providing  people with what they needed : Argentina, 2002. What 
about western countries ?



From mig at olccjp.net  Thu Oct  9 07:33:48 2008
From: mig at olccjp.net (Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota)
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:33:48 +0900
Subject: [cc_research] Crisis and CCs
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     Dear all,

     As far as I know there has been no new initiative of complementary 
currency to be triggered by the current crisis.  It seems to take still 
some time until people start to wonder whether our monetary system is 
faultless or not...

     By the way, the oil price has been swinging quite violently in the 
last few weeks.  It looks like even the most valid commodity with 
economic value like oil is instable in the current crisis, and I wonder 
if there's something of "absolute value" at all...

     Best regards,

     Miguel

J?r?me Blanc wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Given the deepening crisis (in banking, finance and the basic economy) 
> in the US as well as in other western countries, I wondered if there 
> were signs of rise of CCs schemes ?
> Are Ithaca Hour-like systems spreading all over the US ? or the number 
> of users suddenly rising ?
> Are time banking developing more than before ?
> Are LETS awakening ?
> and so on...
> 
> Recent history gives us an evidence of a boom of CCs, related with the 
> collapse of the country, soon followed by a collapse of CCs after they 
> failed providing  people with what they needed : Argentina, 2002. What 
> about western countries ?
> 
> 
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> 
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