How Small-Town Banknotes Keep the Global Dollar at Bay
The London Times - James Bone - You can buy a slice of hazelnut ricotta torta and a caffe latte at Rubi’s cafe in this trendy Massachusetts town for $5 (£2.50).
The crisp local banknotes look like politically correct Monopoly money, with portraits of social activists and local figures such as Herman Melville, the novelist, and Norman Rockwell, the painter, on one side and pictures by living local artists on the other.