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What's Going Wrong in the Stock Market -- Video

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio is one of the most prominent and most articulate free-market educators today. In this video, he gives a fundamental explanation for the recently experienced stock market woes, which can be traced back to the federal government’s extensive meddling in the stock market in the early 1980s, which brought about a highly “supercharged” stock market unlike anything which would have occurred in a free economy. The current stock market and the short-term-oriented corporate mentality which accompanies it is not a product of freedom, voluntarism, or “capitalism run amok.” Rather, it is a direct consequence of the perverse incentives generated by federal government intervention.   

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