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Friday, March 29, 2024

What Is Capitalism?

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

On a day when the sad reality of our (AAPL-free) centrally-planned economy came a little unhinged, it is perhaps useful to reflect on just how different our ‘capitalism’ in the US now is from other ‘capitalist’ societies and the one we had in the 1900s. Robert Murphy (of The Politically Incorrect Guide To Capitalism book fame) explains how everyone has an agenda – yet everyone agrees that they despise capitalism. Capitalism is the system in which people are ‘free to choose’ and this is compared to socialist economies (where prices are set by the Fed state and assets can be confiscated for the benefit of the people). The fear of capitalism’s citizenry running riot with unregulated actions leaves critics focused on a belief that regulators and bureaucrats know better than private citizens how to make their own decisions. This brief discussion ends with a sprinkling of Ayn Rand, Obama, Geithner, Barney Frank, and Harry Reid and their efforts to evade Capitalism’s features, misrepresent its nature, and destroy its last remnants.

 

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