[WoofDog123]

"Four years later, it spans two districts and is accepted by 550 shops, firms, and companies, including eight supermarkets and four co-operative banks. It has 40 issuing offices, and usage is expanding by 70pc a year. Monthly turnover is still a miniscule €135,000 (£88,000) - or rather C135,000"

this is the money line. this script, for whatever anti-euro feel-good barks and rants appear here, is nothing in terms of cash transactions in its area of circulation as a % of the whole. 135k euro in transactions is a non-issue. If we were talking 13 million euro or another such number that would be of more than fringe or lunatic interest.

[DB]

Not something I'd put my life savings into...

[nopardons]

bttt

[PzGr43]

>The Chiemgauer is one of 16 regional currencies
>that have sprung into existence across Germany
> and Austria since the launch of the euro five
> years ago.
>

I quite liked the Reichsmark myself. Accepted from North Sea to the Volga.

[Drago]

The USA version:

http://libertydollar.org/

[killjoy]

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This would only work in regions where people don't travel all that much.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If they're exchangeable for Euros and depreciate with respect to the Euro they aren't really money, just gift cards. Stupid. The issuers are just skimming money off every exchange and adding transaction costs. Stupid.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

German economist who believed that interest and rent charged on capital is pernicious.

Oh, no. Not again. Please.

[SIDENET]

Ithaca, NY (City of Evil) has a local currency, too.

[2right]

......They offer users a "prestige gain" in their neighbourhoods, and a glow of good feeling.....

Liberalism in a nutshell.

[kaboom]

That map is so WWII.

They might want to change the colors on the no-Euro signs.

[nathanbedford]

I actually live in the Chiemgau, indeed only about 5 miles from the town of Prien where the chart says the Chiemgau currency originated and I have never heard of this nonsense.

Judging from the miniscule amount in circulation, I judge this to be a fad among the moon bat academics and leftists who infest this fairytale vacationland southeast of Munich.