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"A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. A toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market. We can buy HP printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries, BUT heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian or Mexican pharmacy. That's called un-American. IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"This is the free market, governed by what Adam Smith called the "invisible hand." It acts equitably: if I do well for myself, I benefit not only myself, my family, and my company, but also my community. Wealth "trickles down" from the rich to the poor: a rising tide lifts all boats. The market myth is comforting for the rich, but it disregards the fact that the free market distributes benefits only under conditions of near-perfect competition, where the playing field is level and the players have a more or less equal number of chips." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"We must replace FDA's creation of a drug company monopoly on therapeutic information with a free market in health information. That new free market, although free of prior restraints, should be tempered by law enforcement to arrest those who abuse their freedom to communicate false health information to the public. The system recommended here fulfills, rather than violates, the First Amendment and replaces a legacy of FDA speech suppression that has sacrificed life and health with one that will promote health freedom." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"A toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market. We can buy HP printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries, BUT heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian or Mexican pharmacy. That's called un-American. IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY! Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Looked at like that, the hurly-burly of a free market seems to be closer to the patterns of nature than the simple-minded schemes of pundits. In a free market—in theory at least—each actor acts from his own needs and goals and from his perception of the needs and goals of a handful of others. He expresses this through the mechanism of pricing. The price feeds back to everyone whatever he needs to know about the needs and wishes of everyone else." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The market myth is comforting for the rich, but it disregards the fact that the free market distributes benefits only under conditions of near-perfect competition, where the playing field is level and the players have a more or less equal number of chips. In the real world, the playing field is not level and the distribution of wealth is strongly skewed. Not surprisingly, in today's world the poorest 40 percent is left with 3 percent of the global wealth and the wealth of a few hundred billionaires equals the annual income of three billion of the world's poor people. 5." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"It may even cause many of us, at times, to question the very viability of our capitalist and free market institutions. It is for such reasons that we must be clear on the prospect for such contractions and on what should be our individual and national policy regarding this prospect. The trouble with the exercise of moral authority by opinion leaders is that, although views that the market is either very overpriced or very underpriced may become commonplace among the experts, such views are never universally held." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Ethics and Professional Standards A fundamental weakness of our free market system is that, especially during boom periods, there tends to be a decline in ethical standards through time, until there is some kind of scandal or crackdown, and then a public and government reaction to the scandal restores standards. At the time of a speculative asset bubble, while prices are going up, there are few forces to counteract the decline in ethical standards. We saw this problem in various forms during the years of excessive irrational exuberance in the late 1990s." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Rather, it is an example of corporatism, collusion between corporations, and the government operating totally outside the free market system. Corporations are an anomaly of the free market and were condemned as such as early as the 1940s by two leading philosophers of free enterprise, Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek. They saw the corporation as an entity that used the power of government to stifle competition, the life-blood of free enterprise." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"In my dream, the better concept will be successful on a free market with no regulations, for the benefit of the individual and then for the benefit of all. "I have a dream that health information is provided in a way everybody can understand. It is my dream, the usual medical mumbo-jumbo that the ordinary citizen cannot comprehend will be forbidden one day. I believe that it is urgently necessary to tell people the truth about the side effects of one method compared with another one in a much more compelling and lucid way." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market. We can buy HP printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries, BUT heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian or Mexican pharmacy. That's called un-American. IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY! Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"By denying all others the right to sell chemical agents approved by FDA for sale by a specific company, and by denying all others the right to make therapeutic claims for natural substances, FDA achieves through force a competition free market for the sale of FDA approved drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration is a later entrant into the business of erecting barriers to competition. Over-the-counter drugs for the treatment of asthma and upper respiratory ailments contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Ephedrine and pseu- doephedrine are used in the making of illicit methamphetamines." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "That new free market, although free of prior restraints, should be tempered by law enforcement to arrest those who abuse their freedom to communicate false health information to the public. The system recommended here fulfills, rather than violates, the First Amendment and replaces a legacy of FDA speech suppression that has sacrificed life and health with one that will promote health freedom." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"So the free market rewarded us. You see, I do care about company profits. I've spent my life creating those profits. I don't only speak out to help patients, but also to wake up the drug companies, because they are cettainly not helping themselves right now." And there was something more going on; something Big Pharma had been good at hiding. Now was the time to say it, so that the American people would undetstand the game going on with their money: "And perhaps, all of this wouldn't be so bad if we helped truly needy American corporations; corporations that laid the golden egg." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"The Fed's rates are no longer seen as either interference in the free market or technical adjustments best left to professionals, but as policy to be debated by plumbers and deliverymen. Those who believe in the perfection of man were greatly encouraged after 2002: Paul Volcker had already proved that the Fed had mastered the art of taming inflation, and now the Greenspan Fed had learned how to avoid deflation, too. The U.S. economy was impregnable—a citadel of growth that would expand forever and ever, amen." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"It is necessary to raise these issues because, encouraged by free market tendencies and New Labour, Wyeth has gained access to the British Parliament, the NHS and parts of the voluntary sector, without any kind of regulatory audit. Diazepines Wyeth was one of the companies responsible for the introduction to Britain of the benzodiazepine tranquilliser range of drugs during the 1960s and 1970s. Wyeth manufactured Ativan. Benzodiazepines turned out to be highly addictive and very toxic." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"It trumpeted the opportunities for "green" chemical research that would be encouraged by the first open, actually free market in chemicals —in which consumers would be given information enabling them to make the decision as to what risks they are willing to take. An aggressive effort by the State and Commerce depatments to recruit allies to oppose REACH was begun. Pleas went out from the U.S. and Australian missions in Brussels to countries like India, Malaysia, Brazil, South Africa, and Japan to develop a "coordinated outreach" strategy among "EU trading partners on REACH." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Until the Third World's cultural structures of traditional consciousness are healthy enough to produce their own native forms of modernism, free market economies alone will not produce the kind of evolution in these societies that leads to greater rights and freedoms." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "This worked fairly well in developed countries throughout the twentieth century—although free market economies continued to provide obscene riches for the few, and although many remained impoverished, the economies in most developed countries provided sufficient social safety nets and enough upward mobility to prevent the type of widespread social unrest witnessed at the end of the nineteenth century and up through the 1930s." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Taurel thinks, the free market works. I was asked to delete that section from my speech, as well as tone down several other parts. But things didn't get any better from there. We left the imposing state house in the governor's dark blue car for a local senior center, where the press conference was going to take place. Everything looked calm and normal; the state's collective broadcast industry had gathered, along with many print journalists. We started the press conference, and then something unexpected happened." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"And what makes it an expert on the free market, when its stated goals are straight out of the Soviet Gosplan? "The Bank would prefer to ... base its financing on a national development program, provided that it is properly worked out in terms of projects by which the objectives of the program are to be attained," states the Bank's own annual report.31 That means the Bank is willing to hand out money to countries only if they pursue national development programs." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"I argued that the free market would prevail, and that drug makers would thrive, ultimately, in a competitive arena. The following day David Schwab wrote in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "It's not every day a successful executive embarks on a personal campaign criticizing the very industry in which he has worked for over 20 years—especially the pharmaceutical industry. But that's where Peter Rost found himself yesterday as he addressed a gathering of journalists in New York and strongly criticized the effort by drug makers to prevent the importing of cheaper medicines from overseas." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "Of course, the drug industry knew that is not how the free market works, but the Department of Health and Human Services feigned ignorance. Let's now do the analysis of savings possible in the United States based on the data in the report. We know that according to the HHS report drug prices in Europe are about 50 percent lower than in the United States. We also know that European drugs are traded profitably from one European country to the other when the price differential is just 10 percent, so let's assume that we get a 40 percent discount." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Okay, that's the free market, where scarcity creates values, and it all makes sense in a weird way.) "Do you think these toys are bad for the environment?" I ask him as he cradles his newfound friends. "Are you crazy or something?" he says. He is holding his Alien and putting him against his downy cheek. "How could a cute little guy like this do anything bad to the environment?" I go online and look up Diamond Select and write: Dear Diamond Select, My son loves your toys but I have a question: I noticed they are made in China." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The American public also generally assumes that by the time the oil runs out humankind will have moved on to the next energy system—the current favorite candidate being one based on hydrogen and that it will arrive just in time, by special delivery, because the free market decrees it is so, and the free market never lets us down. I don't believe it is going to work that way—and presently I will discuss the issue of alternative energy, the putative replacements for oil. The world will be in trouble long before we run out of oil, when we reach peak production." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Allowing the free market to operate in an unfettered way may produce a preponderance of healthier foods at some time in the future, but there may be ways to help the process along (discussed later). Lowering the price of healthy foods such restaurants use to prepare their dishes is one such way. The free market and Physical Activity There are a few encouraging signs that businesses related to physical activity, mainly the national health club chains like Bally's, are at least speaking about opening franchises in inner-city areas." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"But despite their aversion to Washington, Americans must also admit that the so-called "free market" system is doing a miserable job of providing excellent medical care at a reasonable price. The reason is quite simple: there is no free market in medicine. In no other area is the consumer (the -patient) less able to gauge what is best for him, at the best price. Second, the so-called "free market" is more subject to professional monopoly than to competition." - Martin L. Cross, The Medical Racket (Get the book.)

"Back then, pharma companies were still in a position to resist such calls on the grounds that such onerous regulation would go against the fundamental spirit of a free market. Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee, however, continued to call for more thorough regulation of the medicines market until the late 1950s, when events in Europe gave him the public support he needed. This was when reports started appearing of babies being born in Europe with grotesque abnormalities." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"The American public also generally assumes that by the time the oil runs out humankind will have moved on to the next energy system—the current favorite candidate being one based on hydrogen and that it will arrive just in time, by special delivery, because the free market decrees it is so, and the free market never lets us down. I don't believe it is going to work that way—and presently I will discuss the issue of alternative energy, the putative replacements for oil. The world will be in trouble long before we run out of oil, when we reach peak production." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"States struggled with widespread counterfeiting, inflated note valuation, and the natural instability of the free market. But the War between the States brought the wildcat banking era to a crashing halt. The first National Banking Act of 1863 brought control over banking to the federal government once again. In addition to creating a uniform national banking system and a single national currency, the new law also provided a secondary market to the U.S. Treasury to finance the growing debts of the Civil War. The change was gradual." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

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