Un paese russo stampa la propria moneta, parallela al rublo, - Moderatore
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By: Moderatore on Giovedì 02 Luglio 2015 21:14
Un paese russo stampa la propria moneta, parallela al rublo, e fa inbufalire il governo russo che lo minaccia perchè costituisce "una minaccia per l'economia russa"
^"Anger in Moscow as Russian village prints own currency
Locals warned to abandon 'Kolion,' which is used to trade goods and labour, because it 'threatens Russia's economy'"#http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/06/anger-moscow-russian-village-prints-currency-150628143029075.html^, 28 Jun 2015
Si tratta di una moneta usata solo per gli scambi locali, ad esempio quando le autorità di Mosca sono venute e vedere e hanno chiesto di ottenerne un esempio, i locali hanno detto che se tagliavano della legna in cambio gliene avrebbero dato un poco, ma non in cambio di rubli. I rubli restano quindi nel paese come soldi in banca e tutto il resto, ma quando qualcuno fa qualche lavoro o produce qualche merce a livello locale la scambia con questo moneta locale. Nel suo piccolo è perfetto come modello. Cioè tu vuoi lavorare e non ci sono abbastanza soldi in giro per impiegarti ? Basta che produci qualcosa che abbia un valore e si stampa della moneta e te la si paga....Questo modello di moneta locale per gli scambi locali taglia però fuori le banche (e la banca centrale che le protegge) e il mercato finanziario per cui viene da sempre soppresso in tutto il mondo moderno
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Three hours out of Moscow and down a dead-end road, is the epicentre of a strange fiscal controversy.
A small shed houses a battered metal box that contains the cash stash of the village. The village's currency, the Kolions, was invented, minted, and printed, by farmer Mikhail Shlyapnikov.
Shlyapnikov told Al Jazeera's Rory Challands that "people have always exchanged things among each other".
"We haven't created this process, we just made it digital. In Russia, for any type of village work you used to give a bottle of vodka and it was stable currency," he says.
"So we are doing the same thing - though we don't use vodka. We printed these pieces of paper."
Mikheil and more than a 100 friends use the paper for loans, and to trade goods and labour with each other. It means their real money can be saved for more ambitious things, like building a village bathhouse.
Another advantage from the Kolion is that it has proven to be resilient to the storms buffeting Russia's official currency, the rouble.
When your purchasing power is pegged to the potato, it does not much matter what is happening in the money markets.
However, the Russian authorities are not impressed by the Kolion
"They came last summer and winter and in spring. They wanted to see the Kolions so I made them to chop some wood to earn it," says Mikhail.
"We all laughed. And suddenly a month ago I got a summons to court with scary words, like, 'urgently withdraw this money and destroy it because it threatens Russia's economy'."
Mikhail's next appearance in court is in July 1. Until then, he is staying on his farm, looking after his animals, and slightly relishing all the fuss.
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(L'unico problema si si pensa di estendere questo esperimento è forse il nome russo, "Kolion")