Скачать или смотреть Do Amish use banks? Barter? Checkbooks? Credit Cards? (Amish & Money)

A look at how the Amish use money & do business. Do Amish rely on barter? Do they use banks? Do Amish have mortgages? Are there wealthy Amish people? I also share one related, rather bizarre "Amish" story from the mid-1990s.

My name is Erik Wesner and I'm not Amish. Back in 2004, I met the Amish while selling books door-to-door. Since then, I've visited 5,000+ Amish homes & dozens of Amish communities. I run the Amish America website. More: https://amishamerica.com/

Image credits: Jim Halverson, Don Burke (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ozarkin..., Jerry in PA, Ed C., Bank of Bird-in-Hand (https://bihbank.com/), Lauren Futch, Middlefield Banking Company (  / plaincitymb  )

Articles cited:

"Amish make the ultimate traditional customers" by Jeremy Nobile, Crain's Cleveland Business, May 11, 2019 https://www.crainscleveland.com/finan...

"A Local Bank in Amish Country Flourishes Amid Dearth of Small Lenders" by Ryan Tracy, The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2015

"Few Clues in Robberies in Which Bandits Used Amish Disguise", The New York Times, November 5, 1995