The state forces the economy away from barter for its own fiscal purposes.
That, of course, will enable the Greek government to barter for softer terms in the hope that may sway the voters.
Might he, instead, offer something in barter for the flowers?
Forbes contributor Jim Blasingame, in Is Barter Right For Your Small Business?
Would the players have been so tempted to barter property for pocket change, or for rent, to help pay a car note, if they were just given fuller living expenses?
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Motorola was one of the first companies to develop patents for GSM phone service and has used them to barter with other vendors for years, keeping its licensing costs to a minimum.
On rural roads, sugar-mill workers sit next to bags of beet sugar they have received in lieu of wages, hoping to barter their product for food or cash.
Those include forms 1099-B (for reporting of proceeds from brokers and barter exchanges), 1099-S (for reporting real estate sales) and the ever popular 1099- MISC (if amounts are reported in boxes 8 or 14).
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As sales for money replaced barter, economic exchange became faster and more frequent.
If the U.S. government permits such flim-flams as parent-to-subsidiary laterals and barter arrangements as a substitute for cash to circumvent ILSA (and, any other sanction regime), it can forget about having sanctions serve in the future as an effective policy alternative to generally ineffectual diplomatic demarches and draconian military responses.
With the U.S.-dollar financing system out of bounds for Iranian companies, India and Iran have begun a barter system in which Tehran accepts Indian rupees in payment for crude oil.
Black pepper is considered to be black gold, and was once exchanged for gold as a barter.
They sometimes barter, trading milk and cow dung for grass to feed their livestock.
But there is something still in use in the marketplace today that humans used for millennia before money: barter.
After all, sports organizations tend to get a lot of work for free, often using barter as a principle means of payment.
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Before the Huzyaks leave on cruises, typically five months long, they stock up on frozen chickens to eat and barter--they once traded some for lobsters off Baja, Mexico.
But there was a small nod in the direction of capitalism: Instead of barter, Ukraine will now pay cash for its gas and Russia will pay cash to send gas to Europe through pipelines that cross the country.
Yet barter has thrived in the new Russia, and for many reasons.
It is, for example, almost impossible to trace barter deals.
Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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Barter is a slow, expensive and highly restrictive way for companies to do business.
Before using a barter network, remember you may be exchanging assets today for future redemption.
As well as paying for books, customers are also encouraged to barter using "milk, meals and amusement".
"In times of crisis, barter offers a means to avoid the often fruitless search for bank loans and other forms of financing, " he says.
So they harvest what they need for their own consumption and operate a system of barter with what is left over.
The problem is that operating markets on the basis of barter is a pain: you have to scout around looking for the rare person who wants what you have and has what you want.
Why not barter two tickets to the BCS title game between Notre Dame and Alabama for a little New York real estate?
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In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.
For example, with too much inventory and too little cash, barter can be part of a survival strategy in a bad economy.
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