Let’s Talk
I’m not usually one to write out my thoughts and feelings for everyone on the Internet to read, but I’m at the point where I feel compelled to share my thoughts about the current state of the world. Your line here is, “Why should I read another blog about some random dude’s opinion?”. My answer: you should read this blog because I’m going to say what you’re thinking. If I don’t uphold that promise, you can feel free to comment about it (or just leave), but I’ll make myself clear from the start: this blog is directed toward people who are witnessing capitalism slip away, and who are willing to do anything they can to save the free-market principles they hold dear.
Now, you might say that we haven’t truly had a free-market for quite some time…and you’d be right. But what’s happening now is an acceleration toward government intervention into all things business, from the small shop owner to the global corporation. Honestly, I don’t think that there was much of any acceleration away from free-market principles in last decade, but due to the current global economic situation, our world’s governments have responded by going into takeover mode. This is a knee-jerk reaction…or just plain reactionary, in the political sense. The governmental idea is to immediately fix what’s broken instead of allowing a greater, long term shift back to true value by allowing the economy to right itself. With this solution, we’ll see (we are seeing) a movement away from the free market to a situation where value is agreed upon, and influenced, by politicians and governments rather than a contract between the seller and buyer. We’re entering a period of time where the government will decide who will be allowed to thrive (or fail) in the market, who will perform what task in what organization, and who will be privileged enough to receive a loan. We’ve already seen examples of these travesties of economic principle occur in the past few months. The goal now is to put our heads together, and determine a way forward that decelerates the current movement, and places us back on track toward the capitalism that we’ve misplaced.
I see this site as being a gathering place for people of like mind, and sound capitalist principle. Here we’ll discuss ideas, criticize and respond to criticism, comment on the topics of the day, and determine a course for the future of capitalism in the world economy.
Andrew