Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Black Markets: Intro
“If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.” -James C. Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill
Category: Historical Perspective
Perspective from throughout the ages. Insight into how free market values were influenced, shaped, applied or neglected in times past.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Venezuela’s Economic Collapse: Socialist Policies That Impoverished Venezuela
Venezuela bloomed in a free-market capitalist economic system. Venezuela has switched from being a capitalist country to socialist at the cost of economic prosperity.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Before Socialist Venezuela: The Economic Collapse of Venezuela
Venezuela, a nation in northern South America that once held the title as one of the richest countries in Latin America.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Market Trends
Market Trends
Where are the people putting their money? What are the people looking for in their investments and purchases?
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Our Spiraling Debt Addiction..
Since The founding of our country, debt has been viewed negatively. Thomas Jefferson made an excellent point when he stated that debts made today will rob future generations
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Recessions Vs Depressions
Recessions and Depressions are very much the same in their essence: loss of activity, production and growth within an economy. However, there are some distinct differences between the two phenomena.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Lessons From The Great Depression
As economic fears grow in suspicion of a possible recession, we take a look back at one of the most devastating economic experiences industrialization has ever known: The Great Depression.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
A Recession Incoming? Maybe Just A Transition To Modernity..
The world economy is in dire need of a reset. Age old institutions, and status quos have been propped up by unnecessary intervention and bailouts for too long.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Fiat Money and Taxes
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy . . . “ -Former Chief Justice John Marshall, in McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 4 Wheat. 316 316 (1819)
Categories: Free Market Inspiration, Historical Perspective, Opportunity
Freedom Isn’t Free
Freedom isn’t free. It comes with a cost. A very weighted cost. Whether the lives lost in wars, or risks and sacrifices made to pursue a life where opportunity and prosperity abound.
It’s Important We Talk About Freedom
We must build a habit of appreciating the people who have sacrificed so much for a cause greater than themselves. Appreciation goes far beyond remembrance and being thankful for their sacrifice and the outcome of it.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Fiat Money (2)
Thinking of investing in gold, silver or perhaps another precious metal in 2021? Perhaps, the fact that your money is worth more than eight times less than it was in 1966, may cement your decision.
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Fiat Money
US coinage still is bereft of precious metal. And, still, the only thing backing it is “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.”
Categories: Free Market Insights, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
Inflation: Quick Take
Inflation a market phenomena every economic system has. Inflation causes a general increase in prices and a fall in purchasing value of money.
Categories: Free Market Fundamentals, Historical Perspective, Policy Impact
What Is Freedom?
Freedom means something slightly different to everyone. Freedom is by definition many things, but the one definition that sticks out most to us is: “absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.”