Having Trade Community Currency in you pocket is an immediate benefit. As of this writing, you can purchase 43 products and services from 23 different vendors and the list is growing. The money these vendors receive must then re-circulate right here in our community for Trades can not leave. This is a profoundly enriching and self-sustaining style of economy that is available to the entire community right now.

Before spending your Trade’s their value will not be easily assessed, but as you benefit from your purchases your estimation of the Trades value will rise quite naturally – you will have confirmed their usefulness. At the same time, the amount of Trades in your possession will diminish which, following the natural law of money, will provide you increased incentive to bid for more by offering your own products and services on the marketplace. We are human; we need incentive to act. This incentive of placing your products and services on the market is bound to stimulate you to improve and refine you skills which translates into further positive community service. Community currency provides incentive for inter-community trade. We get to know and value each other and serve each other better. We become each other’s customers. This is very wise economics regardless of whether national economics are healthy or not.

Looking at this phenomena of local trade over time, we see a new stream in the flow of consumption and production enter our lives – a stream that wasn’t there before and would not be possible without employing a community currency. Trade community currency increases its participant’s wealth right now, not theoretically but in actuality.

The perception that community currency is a difficult concept to be avoided unless the dollar collapses is a mis-perception. If we start right now we increase our wealth right now. The Trade immediately supplements our dollar supply. If the dollar remains healthy, we are all the more winners. If the dollar continues to inflate, we are in an excellent position to alleviate the suffering economic shock causes by simply increasing our participation in the ‘home’ market – home economics at its best.

TradeMarket – ncgvtrademarket.org