Currencies

Alternative Currencies
... Alternative currencies can be created by an individual, corporation, or organization, they can be created by national, state, or local governments, or they can arise naturally as people begin to use a certain ... or when designed to work in combination with national or multinational fiat currencies they can be referred to as complementary currency ... Most complementary currencies are also local currencies and are limited to a certain region ...

Snake In The Tunnel
... aiming at limiting fluctuations between different European currencies ... band for the European Economic Community (EEC), essentially pegging all the EEC currencies to one another ... the coordination of economic policies and a reduction in fluctuations between European currencies ...

Alternative Currencies - Advantages
... Some alternative currencies devalue rapidly (they are called Schwundgeld) this increases monetary circulation ... Local currencies also have the benefit that they cannot be spent abroad, and thus the money always keeps circulating locally, benefiting only the local economy ... Alternative currencies are reported to work as a counterbalance for the local economy ...

Currency Competition
... countries enforce fiat currency monopolies in which single, nationalized currencies controlled by central banks is declared legal tender ... also used to describe the relationship between separate fiat currencies in the global economy ... In this sense, two or more government-issued currencies, such as the United States dollar and the Euro of the Eurozone, retain domestic monopoly status but compete with each other across international borders ...

List Of Micronation Currencies
... Micronational currency systems describe the self-declared official currencies of micronations ... These currencies are usually created to legitimize the micronations that produce them, and few such currencies are recognized outside these micronations ...