{"id":1190,"date":"2012-03-18T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2012-03-18T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T14:49:58","slug":"driving-transition-with-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Driving transition with local businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-200\" href=\"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?attachment_id=200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-200\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http:\/\/avbp.net\/friskvard\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>This is a subject I have\u00a0thought\u00a0a lot about. Would it be possible to completely side-step the toxic, debt\/credit-based system we are living in and just invest the money we have in local,\u00a0sustainable\u00a0and resilient businesses?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we could give it a go. It is all to do with bonds. A bond is a simple certificate\u00a0that for example says &#8220;if you give me \u00a3500 now, I will serve you bread for \u00a3530 &#8211; that is an effective interest rate of 6%&#8221;. The baker can offer better rates as it is easier for the baker to give you product than actual money. A win-win for both.<\/p>\n<p>This white paper is a more complicated\u00a0discussion\u00a0of how to set up such a system locally,\u00a0and\u00a0suggests that everyone uses the same monetary value as a\u00a0starting\u00a0point, so consumers can easily compare offers. Download the white\u00a0paper\u00a0here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paywithatweet.com\/pay\/?id=cf980c9759b65c41f9c504c63cff3d31\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/paywithatweet.com\/pics\/pay_button2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a subject I have\u00a0thought\u00a0a lot about. Would it be possible to completely side-step the toxic, debt\/credit-based system we are living in and just invest the money we have in local,\u00a0sustainable\u00a0and resilient businesses? Well, we could give it a go. It is all to do with bonds. A bond is a simple certificate\u00a0that for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-rethinking-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}