All Entries in the "Agorism in Action" Category
Let’s give the Fed some competition by John Stossel
by John Stossel Pssst. Want to buy some Stossels? They’re my own currency with my face on them. Why should you trust them? Because I promise to redeem them for gold. And I’m reliable. I have money in the bank and a job that brings in more than I spend. By contrast, the politicians who [...]
Agorism in Action!!! Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
By Ryan Paul The Pirate Bay (TPB), a popular BitTorrent website, experienced a brief stint of downtime this week. After restoring service, the site’s operators confirmed that the outage was caused by routine maintenance and not a law enforcement raid. According to a blog post published by TPB, system upgrades were needed in order to accommodate [...]
Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy
Soon, two-thirds of the world’s workers will be part of street economies, Neuwirth says. Photo: Jessica Dimmock Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to journalist Robert Neuwirth, that’s exactly what they’ve become. In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of [...]
Black market accounts for a quarter of tobacco in the UK
By Ronan Hegarty 24 Feb 2012 | More than a quarter of all tobacco smoked in the UK is either fake or smuggled – costing the country billions of pounds in lost tax revenue. The latest figures from Japan Tobacco International show that although HMRC has enjoyed some success in tackling illicit tobacco, counterfeit and smuggled tobacco is [...]
Jeffrey Tucker Joins Agora Financial, to Relaunch Laissez Faire Books
From Break the Matrix Baltimore, MD – Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, announced that effective immediately, Jeffrey Tucker has joined the company and will serve as executive editor of recently-acquired Laissez Faire Books. Jeffrey Tucker is the author of several books including Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (2010), and It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, [...]
Free Market Businesses
By Independent Learning Dec 12, 2011 There is a world, one no one needs acknowledge exists, but sits there, doing as it has since time immemorial, it is the world of free exchange and all it does is generate wealth. We have all heard of the idea we can get unlimited power from simply tapping [...]
Agorism 101 from an Agorist
By: George Donnelly Agorism is how You get the Fed outta your Wallet. The Federal Reserve is wrecking our lives. It controls our money. People who promote serious alternatives to its less-than-mighty dollar go to jail. Daily it ekes little bits of value out of our salaries and savings. This is known as inflation. When [...]
Yacht Company Envisions Seastead in Project Utopia
OCTOBER 2, 2011 By: Mike Gibson BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of the BMT Group, has announced its latest design, developed in partnership with Yacht Island Design. Project Utopia, an avant‐garde vision of a future concept breaks the traditional naval architectural mould which the market has come to expect and offers a truly unique outlook [...]
