By Steve Lonegan MarketWatch.com Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Well-meaning conservative and libertarian groups beat the drum for something called "free markets." Liberal groups blame these "free markets" for many of the world's evils.
Here's the harsh reality neither side will tell you. There ain't no such thing as a "free market."
The free market ceased to exist more than 40 years ago. Nixon drove a stake through its heart by shutting down the Bretton Woods world monetary system, without which free markets cannot exist.
It cannot exist in its true form because the very money that is the foundation of our economy now is just pieces of paper: "legal tender for all debts public and private." Money's value is controlled not by the markets but by a federal agency, the Federal Reserve, that thinks it thereby can control the economy ... like tuning a carburetor on a car. ...
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