A Free Market in Money? | Jeff Deist

Presented at "Sound Money": a seminar for High School and College students covering the topic of money—where it comes from, what governments do to it, and where it's going in the future. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 April 2014.

[jamesholland]

As always, fantastic speech from Jeff Deist. This guy thinks like me, except even better. Just repeal prohibitions on creating competing currencies. No need to "End the Fed" at all. Simple and elegant strategies to achieve liberty.

[Pwecko]

Very good talk.  I like that question at the end - "If the government can create all the money needed to run the economy, why do we need taxes?"  An excellent question to ask statists.  Jeff Deist is an excellent speaker.  Very enjoyable.

[s..l]

We should remember that money was invented in the free market, not by the state. State just happened to get their hands on money and created their very own money monopoly.

[kencoumou]

Nice job Jeff. You made my commute whip by.

[johnlatoole]

I second Pwecko. That was cool as a fan

[woodrow]

The other option for honda, or any other company is buying a politian. Then it also locks in customer base & leg up on competion, just see GMC

[vitalymaliarov]

Very good, Ive always been intrigued by the idea of a currency from the free market. Whenever government gets its hands on something it always makes that thing worse. The government is like our countries bitchy overprotective mom