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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Barter & mutual credit 28 Moderate Outside money and outside regulation, low stakes and low barriers — closer to community infrastructure than to a market.
  • Retired LEGO sets 34 Moderate The friendliest collectible fingerprint: cheap to enter, low fraud, and slow and steady by nature.
  Barter & mutual credit Retired LEGO sets
Exit difficulty 4 3
Volatility 2 2
Leverage 1 1
Carry cost 1 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 5 5
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 1 2
Difficulty 28 Moderate 34 Moderate
In a sentence Trading goods and skills directly, or through a local credit unit, without sterling ever being involved — the oldest arrangement here and a surprisingly resilient one.Sealed plastic bricks that have outperformed several mainstream asset classes since the 1980s, for reasons that are unusually well documented.
Unit A negotiated swap, or a local credit unit One sealed set
Smallest realistic trade Whatever two people agree £20 upward
Settlement On exchange; mutual credit balances recorded by the scheme On payment; condition of the box is part of the asset

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