free markets Archives - Rethinking the Dollar

Rent Control Is Bad for Renters, but Good for Politicians

Sep 28, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Ontario’s ever-changing rent control policies prove that politicians are just as committed to flip-flopping as the Minnesota Vikings are to not winning the Super Bowl. Rent Control as a Means of Buying Votes Ontario’s modern history of rent control legislation...

US Trade Is Crippled by the American Government, Not the Chinese

Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized

Some fair-weather friends of free trade have been rethinking their positions in the face of supposed Chinese economic weaponization of pharmaceuticals. They are now embracing managed trade instead. Why? Consider the following threat made by Tsinghua University’s...

What Free Market Money Would Look Like

Jan 20, 2020 | News

Monetary affairs have always been subject to government intervention of one kind or another. In ancient times, these interventions were made to raise funds for public spending; by debasing the coinage, kings and other rulers could raise taxes without having to abide...

Greenspan Expects the US to Embrace Negative Interest Rates. Here’s Why That Would be “Catastrophic.”

Sep 19, 2019 | News

One’s own bookcase provides the perfect illustration of time preference, which is the greater value of possession over non possession. There will be books bought on a whim which just clutter a bookshelf and have no value. Next time there’s a clear-out, they are...