So long as interest/usury is present, neither a currency free of interest, or barter, can protect an economy from the consequences of interest or usury.

Why?

1. In the case of barter, each trade may not be diminished directly by interest/usury, but the debts of the main system are still multiplied by the interest/usury the main system is subjected to.
   1. Barter cannot arrest, negate, or offset the process of interest; and so in most practical cases industry conveyed by barter will in one way or another be affected by perpetual multiplication of debt by interest.
   2. Neither can isolated sectors of barter avoid collapse under insoluble debt.
      1. Ultimately, some sector of the main system collapses; this in turn brings down further sectors. The only enterprise which cannot be affected must be wholly independent of the main system. Given the lawful/unlawful imposition of taxes, the need for travel, transport, communication and other infrastructural functions, it is hardly practical that complete isolation can be accomplished; and, as anything is only as strong as its weakest part, barter then becomes as subject as anything else to collapse as a consequence of interest/usury.
2. In the case of an alternate, “competing” interest free circulation, the subjugation of further currency to interest/usury still consumes or obligates ever more of the whole circulation to servicing the debt which is perpetually multiplied by interest.

In other words then, the effects of interest/usury are only eradicated by eradication of interest/usury.

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