Hello Everyone, As you can see, I am new here and have been perusing the wonderful informational resources that are present here for some time. I come with two questions that I haven’t seen answered yet (I have tried searching). I understand free-market proponents are against government regulation …

Welcome! You’ve certainly come to the right place. (Or one of them anyway. Maybe I’m biased, but this is certainly a great resource). I would check out the Mises Wiki first… Free banking That article is pretty far along, plus you’ll find a number of great resources in the links section. Also do a…

John, thank you for those great links. I always find it amazing how such seemingly complex issues can be resolved with such brilliantly simple logic that we are all so fond of. There is just one small caveat to what has been written and perhaps you can help me understand it. Consider a scenario wh…

The Gulf of Mexico is not owned by anyone. So, BP is not violating any property nor do they owe anyone anything. Except maybe coastal fisheries if those were affected.

Your reasoning may be factual, but this is hardly favourable by anybody, and certainly not benificial to anyone but BP. This is where free-markets get ther bad name. They come in (BP), wreak havoc, and then move onto other places that haven’t been plundered yet. So I’m trying to find a counter-argu…

A market is not some foreign object. It can’t “come in” and do anything. “Free market” does not get a bad name from anything that happens. It gets its bad name from socialists labelling every single bad thing that happens in the world as “free market”. Changing what specifically happens will only ch…

Fractional reserve banking used to work just fine in a free market. Banks and other lenders, or anyone else who manipulates the quantity of money and available credit, will always cheat the system. This cannot be avoided. It is the free market itself that reins in the degree of money manipulation.…

Your concern is actually addressed with an actual real world example here: [Re: Deep Thoughts From an Intellectual Lightweight]

False. [3 Reasons Obama Should Kick His Own Ass]

Is that supposed to be some kind of refutation to the fact that you were wrong?

Banking and environemtnal government regulations

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Couple videos on the environment question:

How does the Free-Market protect environmental waste?

Corporate lawyers will beat the average guy in lawsuit

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