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Re: Are monopolies/cartels always a result of government interference in the free market?

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Frost wrote: March 7th, 2018, 10:08 amWhile I enjoyed my month-long ban, I certainly missed out on a lot here.
After what you said to me last time you are extremely lucky I didn't pack you up permanently. I may be the first forum Admin in history to allow someone to abuse me like that and let them back in. You are now on permanent thin ice here.

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Re: Are monopolies/cartels always a result of government interference in the free market?

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Alias wrote: March 7th, 2018, 10:30 am Who produces the currency?
The central government. That is a matter of monetary policy, not economics. Money is a medium of exchange used in economic transactions.
Alias wrote:How are these "rights" established in the first place? Particularly property rights? Particularly the ownership and transfer of land, rights-of-way, water access, resource use and waste disposal?
For the most part, the way they are right now. The biggest change is in the far greater ability to control that property. Rights-of-way, easements, etc. are complex topics, so specific questions would be needed for specific answers.
Alias wrote:What would be the point of the government sitting on a pile of gold, if the government wasn't involved in economics?
They wouldn’t be.
Alias wrote:An elected body would have to pass such an amendment, curtailing half of its own powers and two thirds of its own functions; disbanding half or more of its agencies, and get it thorough the Supreme Court, and then hope the country survives the loss of those government functions.
It would be curtailing far more than half its powers and two thirds of its function :) Although technically, in the U.S. a state convention could be held in order to bypass Congress. In the U.S., the vast majority of what the central government does it has no authority to do so in the first place since it is not in the Constitution, and without economic involvement that would be far less. It would have to be a gradual process to permit adjustment.
Alias wrote:It never ceases to amaze me how many people keep hoping that a philosopher-king will fix everything the stupid populace messed up.
This is a matter of economics, not philosophy.
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Re: Are monopolies/cartels always a result of government interference in the free market?

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Of course. Simple.
Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit atrocities. - Voltaire
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