A Plan For Hard Times: Print Cash

MONEY/NEWSWEEK Magazine, December 1, 2008

A Plan For Hard Times: Print Cash
By Tony Dokoupil

People nationwide may start hoarding their cash as recession fears grow. But in Riverwest—a progressive enclave of Milwaukee—residents have another answer to their money trouble: they'll print their own. The proposed River Currency would be used like cash at local businesses, keeping the area economy humming whatever the health of the country at large. "We can create our own value," explains Sura Faraj, 48, one of the plan's organizers.

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