Economics

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The Free Market Is Beautiful

7 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.03

“There are no limits to what free men, free women, and free markets can accomplish.” –Jack Kemp. Freedom Rules The free market is a beautiful thing. It allows the individual to pursue their own ends without government intervention, and it helps keep...

Bitcoin In El Salvador

7 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.24

“We bought the dip” – President Nayib Bukele Yesterday marked a historic day for the world. El Salvador has become the first country to make Bitcoin it’s legal tender, that’s huge! Now that Bitcoin is their legal tender all eyes will be on El Salvado...

Market Trends

3 Nov 2023 3 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.21

“What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I’m not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it....

Our Spiraling Debt Addiction..

3 Nov 2023 3 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.02

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” ― Thomas Jefferson Deb...

Recessions Vs Depressions

2 Nov 2023 4 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.13

“Today’s crises are tomorrow’s stories, and it’s your story. Decide what acts you wish to portray.” –Dr Prem Jagyasi Recessions and Depressions are very much the same in their essence: loss of activity, production and growth within an economy. Howeve...

Lessons From The Great Depression

2 Nov 2023 5 minute read 1 comment OfTheFreeMarket $0.20

“No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being 8scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.” –Isaac Asimov As economic fear...

A Recession Incoming? Maybe Just A Transition To Modernity..

2 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.18

“World needs a new order of modern economy.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity Questions.. 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...

Repo market - the backbone of the financial system

2 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren $0.40

What is the repo market? And why it's the backbone of the financial system? The repo market is the heart of the financial system. It is the market where cash that financial institutions have and Treasury securities meet. Large financial institutions,...

Fiat Money and Taxes

28 Oct 2023 6 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.16

“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)  “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, . . . “ -Oliver Wendell Holmes, former Justice of th...

The Seen and the Unseen - The basics of economics

24 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren $0.38

The basics of economics I finished reading the book “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt in two days. That good it was! It is a well-written book on the basics of economics. By exposing economic fallacies and failures of economic policies, it...