Here are barter comments from companies out in the trenches—the impartial real world—that you and I deal in, day in and day out. The marketplace always tells a story, here is the feed back we (BarterNews) have recently (more…)

Pangaea Travel Consultants in partnership with Carbonfund.org today announced a new program to provide its clients with 100 percent carbon neutral travel.

Travel from airplanes, cars and other methods is a leading cause of CO2 emissions. The aviation industry is responsible for roughly 3 percent of a global carbon emissions, while just a short flight from San Diego to Cancun, for example, will emit the same amount of carbon into the atmosphere that it would take 20 trees ten years to absorb.

This program makes it easy and pain free for travelers to offset their carbon footprint and help contribute to the solution. Pangaea Travel’s program is the first of its kind to offset carbon emissions for all of its clients’ travel, start to finish, free of charge. This includes emissions caused by air travel, hotel stays, cruises, and everything else Pangaea Travel has to (more…)

Dr. Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania says over the last 90 years that 30-day T-bills have returned (more…)

International Monetary Systems (IMS) held their first ever international conference October 25-27 at the beautiful Abbey Resort and Conference Center on Lake Geneva in South Central Wisconsin. In attendance were 118 employees, who aggregately had over 1,000 years of experience in the barter industry. They enthusiastically embraced the theme for the conference—One from Many…Impacting the Future.

The phrase “One from Many” is not original with International Monetary Systems (IMS), but was inspired by the book written by Dee Hock, the man who created VISA International.

According to Don Mardak, founder and CEO of IMS, the parallels with IMS are (more…)

Food service supplies distributor Mountain States Distributing Co. has launched a new website which will provide restaurateurs and others with links and quick access to economical, high-caliber equipment suppliers.

With such access to food service and restaurant equipment suppliers who offer low-cost, high-quality goods and services, customers can save time and money. They’ll now be able to contact the right restaurant equipment or food service supplier, submit an informed order for supplies or equipment, expect responsive customer service, and be assured of (more…)

From the barter desk of Bob Meyer…11/13/07

IMS’s Don Mardak Appears Weekly On Radio

Don Mardak, CEO of International Monetary Systems (OTCBB:INML), is appearing weekly in live and taped interviews on “Steve Crowley’s American Scene” syndicated radio show. Two or three of these interviews usually run each week; several were broadcast live from the Money Show held in San Francisco this past August.

Steve Crowley is the former financial expert from “Good Morning, America.” On his (more…)

Contents in the November 13, 2007 Tuesday Barter Report, published by Barternews magazine (more…)

Visa’s coming IPO, early next year, could surpass AT&T Wireless Group’s $10.62 billion IPO in 2000, making it the largest IPO ever in US history. During 2006 Visa handled $3.2 trillion in 44 billion transactions, making it the largest player in the industry followed by MasterCard, American Express Company and Discover Financial Services.

Since October 2006, Visa’s direct competitor MasterCard has seen its stock more than double, giving it a market value of $25 billion. Visa is expected to have a higher market value once it goes public.

The Visa story has been shared with the commercial barter industry numerous times. And the industry has been told of the extraordinary opportunity it has, given its growth and unique alternative currency. What it doesn’t have is the business model and inter-connectiveness that (more…)

The following story was provided to BarterNews by Reiner Husemann, co-founder of EBB-Euro Barter.


Pagadoo™ Loyalty Systems™ is founded by EBB-Euro Barter Business® and Truekalia®.

EBB-Euro Barter Business and Truekalia, two leading retail trade (barter) exchanges in Europe, present in 13 countries with more than 90,000 customers, have founded Pagadoo AG in Switzerland.

Pagadoo, pronounced “paga doo,” provides an outstanding Multi-Partner-Loyalty System especially for SMEs. Each partner company issues a branded loyalty card to consumers with a (more…)

Former Fed chief Paul Volcker summarized the overall US economic situation at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In his speech he said:

“Altogether, the circumstances seem as dangerous and intractable as I can remember. Boomers are spending like there is no tomorrow. Homeownership has become a vehicle for borrowing and leveraging as much as a source of financial security.. As a Nation we are consumin about 6 per cent more than we are producing. What holds it all together? - High consumption - high leverage - government deficits - What holds it all together is (more…)