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...Barter said that in theory ministers could switch spending from HS2 to NPR....
...There’s an exhibit about choice and opportunity cost, an eight-player simulation of a trading pit, a game of barter....
...My father, for example, a young Englishman serving in Germany in the late 1940s, would barter his cigarette rations for antiquarian books, which he would then sell in Switzerland....
...If a customer does insist on it I’d charge them double,” he jokes....
...The UK, Switzerland and Japan have big pharma industries, but as of Friday it sounded like they were coming around and I’d be surprised if they vetoed a deal signed off by the EU and the US....
...However, scientists and pharma industry leaders say it is too open to exploitation by countries looking to barter over pathogens....
...In the 1960s, former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing called this America’s “exorbitant privilege”. But that privilege has been eroded in recent decades....
...So I thought I’d take her down to Puglia....
...Teilo slowed me down: he lazed on membrane that I’d hoped would help clear weeds; he stalked through the wilder patches. But his main tactic was to interrupt my gardening....
...And perhaps most importantly, public watchdogs did not fully understand the nature of digital barter transactions....
...“I’d never been to the island but it has managed the coronavirus pandemic well and we can live a very normal life,” says Chris, a 35-year-old founder of a video-marketing agency....
...Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V Le Quesne, Salisbury; Sue Topham, Newark; Anthony Evans, Hove Polymath 1,009: AC Lambirth,...
...Kelton and her clan, with considerable support from historians and anthropologists, believe that money started out not as barter, but as debts....
...If China ties up 9m or 10m b/d of oil — in April imports reached 10.6m b/d, up 11 per cent on April 2018 — under bilateral deals, the market that remains will be smaller and potentially much more volatile...
...If the Spanish company decides to stop shipments it would not have an immediate impact on the finances of Venezuela as Caracas received no cash for its crude under the quasi-barter arrangement....
...Touring us around the auction rooms and barter halls that price and sell contemporary art — and the studios where artists hurl ideas at canvases or construct their crazy-as-a-fox-in-formaldehyde concept...
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...Big Tech's barter economy presents additional problems. Accurate GDP measurements require prices, so what can be done to account for digital services that are “ free”?...
...They’d go to the theatre, but would they live there? God, no.”...
...You’d have to say no....
...Recently a friend was confused when he was asked to drive a classmate to the departure hall, and wondered if she’d heard the ride-hailing service could take her there....
...I cleaned the toilets and I cleaned the club, which held me in very good stead when a manager came to me, because I’d done their job. I’d served behind the bar. I cooked the food. I did the reception....
...Barter anyone? Day 2 in Bombay with no cash – no ATMs working. Paid the autowalla 5kgs of rice from a store....
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