By Harold on July 27, 2010
Posted in Finances | Tagged agora, agorism, barter, trade |
Before currency, people used barter to exchange services or goods in the marketplace. Within the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in bartering, especially online. Below is a free online bartering site that allows you to swap, sell, buy or giveaway services and items.
Via ~Swapace
3 Easy Steps To Using SwapAce
SwapAce allows you to [...]
By Harold on July 26, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views | Tagged agora, behavior, black markets, Canada, cigarettes, state, statism, tax |
An article from the Vancouver Sun, is a great illustration of how black markets rise in response from increased theft from the State. The article highlights the rise of Canada’s black market trade of cigarettes, due to increased taxation from the state.
The State seeks to invade every facet of our human experience, in this [...]
By Harold on July 8, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Finances, News and Views, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, anarcho-capitalism, anti-state, ba, black markets, government, Samuel Konkin, state |
An informative article titled “New underground economy” from the Washington Times, provides data points that demonstrate the growth of the underground “black” economy. It reveals that the public is naturally gravitating towards an agorist way of commerce, based over economic oppression and distrust of the state.
The article highlights a significant rise of “unbanked” households, [...]
By Ben on April 29, 2010
Posted in Finances, Food | Tagged agorism, alcoholic beverages, beer, black market, DIY, homebrewing, Invisible Molotov, Kevin Dean, pamphlet, PDF, Xaq Fixx |
Invisible Molotov offers up this tasty PDF, Black Market Brews: Introductory guide to home brewing for fun and profit by Kevin Dean and Xaq Fixx.
Brewing is a tradition that stems back thousands of years. Some anthropologists suggest that it was beer, and not bread, that led to the birth of agriculture. Homebrewing is the art [...]
By Ben on April 15, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views, Politics | Tagged confrontation, protest, taxes, video |
It being “tax day” and all, I thought it would be apropos to post this video of a cadre of market-anarchists confronting a tax collector; and basically asking him how he sleeps at night — amongst other pointed questions.
From Last Blog on Earth:
This week’s CityBeat takes a brief look at San Diego’s local “Voluntaryist” movement, that [...]
By Ben on April 9, 2010
Posted in Finances, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, black markets, free market, markets, Mike Gogulski, nostate |
Mike Gogulski of NoState.com posted an article that includes a breakdown of the Five Markets, what they include, and a handy presentation and chart to make visualization of their differences simple to grasp at a glance.
On a private mailing list, someone asked:
“Aren’t Black Markets and Free Markets mutually Exclusive?”
Free markets don’t exist in any real [...]
By Ben on April 6, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Finances, Physical | Tagged alternative currencies, AOCS, currency, Federal Reserve, local currencies, presentations, Rob Gray |
This is approximately 30 minutes of a talk given at at Brave New Books in Austin, Texas by Rob Gray of the American Open Currency Standard (AOCS) and the AG Trading Post.
Topics Rob covers include: the definition of money, pros and cons of other alternative and local currencies (e.g., Ithaca HOURs and the Liberty Dollar), [...]
By Harold on April 6, 2010
Posted in Finances, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, black markets, government |
A short little vid explaining the basics of Agorism and the use of black markets in order to bring down the state.
By Ben on March 24, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Finances, Mental, Philosophy, Physical | Tagged Build Freedom, counter economics, Frederick Mann, government, liberty, private sector, public sector, tyranny |
How free, exactly, are you? That is the core question asked in an article by Frederick Mann at Build Freedom entitled, “Economic Means to Freedom – Part X.”
The article discusses the differences between the public, private, and real–free–enterprise sectors. The introduction of the article outlines how what is perceived as the “private sector” is really [...]
By Ben on March 19, 2010
Posted in Finances, History, Mental, Physical | Tagged bullion, currency, HL Hunt, Larry LaBorde, precious metals, silver |
In this article from Gold-Eagle.com, Larry LaBorde lays out the rise and fall of the H.L. Hunt family and their stormy relationship with the global silver market.
Most of the article is a very informative historical accounting of the lengths the Hunt family went to to acquire godly sums of silver as a hedge against possible [...]
