In his landmark 1776 book Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith called money one of the three great inventions, along with the written word and mathematics. Money has helped businesses grow more efficiently, ...

If Rodney Dangerfield were alive, he might complain that even bartering is in a recession. Yet the Internal Revenue Service thinks otherwise and seems to be paying more attention to taxing barter ...

Useful items to barter and trade for survival in case of societal collapse. Here is a list of 90+ items you can start collecting today that have been used as currency and traded to be much more ...

You may have lost your shirt in the market, but chances are you have a few dozen more in your closet, half of which you haven't worn since the Clinton administration. If your home has never been ...

Reporting from Oakland — When Oakland restaurateur Henry Vortriede needs more bread for his eatery, he doesn’t have to spend cash to buy it. Instead, he turns to barter, an ancient form of commerce ...

With many businesses struggling under the economic ravages of the pandemic, some are finding relief in bartering – a trade practice that’s been around for millennia but could prove to be a very old ...

Barter is an economic system in which money is, for all intents and purposes, absent. I give you guitar lessons, you give me chickens. There is no medium of exchange, other than the actual goods, ...

Commentator Marion Winik describes how barter has become a small but important part of her family's economy. Marion Winik is the author of the book Above Us Only Sky. Last spring, one of the dads at ...

Entrepreneur Nicole Murphy’s new venture is not a funding option for businesses that need loans. The founder and CEO of Barter Black, Murphy says a critical survival issue for Black businesses is lack ...