There is No Free Market in America | Part One

Tags: Gold Standard, Free Markets, Money and Banks

01/26/2015 Mark Thornton

Interviewed by host Elijah Johnson, Mark Thornton explains how the Austrian view of economics contrasts with the mainstream view, how you cannot have a truly free market without sound money, and how competing currencies could benefit our economy now.

This is part one of a two part interview.

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