The data center water panic has a better answer: Water markets
https://reason.com/2026/03/24/the-data-center-water-panic-has-a-better-answer-water-markets/

#DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #WaterMarkets #Economics #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #TechNews #Environment #FreeMarkets #Infrastructure

On this day, 250 years ago, Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith laid the first groundwork for classical economics with his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, which challenged the prevailing European attitude favoring mercantilism. A full copy can be read on Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations).

#year1776 #AdamSmith #classicalEconomics #freeMarkets #liberalism #mercantilism #TheWealthOfNations

Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government

#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection

Do you object to what #ICE and the #DHS are doing? Do you wonder why both #democrat and #republican administrations have supported them for decades? Are you looking for an #alternative?

You might be a #libertarian.

#freeminds, #freemarkets, and #peace.

[A] great embarrassing fact [that] haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”

David Graeber

#DavidGraeber #Capitalism #Freemarkets

🕰️ Fresh calendar, same old lie. They say markets are free. They never were. Law writes the rules, the state prints the money, and power fills the gaps. Strip the scaffolding and you do not get freedom. You get monopoly, muscle, and silence. 2026 is about staring that down.

What is labeled “overregulation” increasingly resembles regulatory absence: capture, opacity, non-payment, and selective enforcement.

#FreeMarkets https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/there-are-no-free-markets.html

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“Adam Smith Is Misinterpreted And His Influence Overstated”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/adam-smith-is-misinterpreted-and-his-influence-overstated or https://archive.is/hQpRa).

#Economics #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #AdamSmith #TheWealthOfNations #Legacy #Books #InvisibleHand

"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."

https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism

#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.

#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker

ICYMI - PERRY: City lawmakers snubbing free market system in Aurora is bad business

‘The truth is simple. Businesses don’t create blight. Blight creates business conditions’

https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perry-city-lawmakers-snubbing-free-market-system-in-aurora-is-bad-business/

#AuroraCO #COpolitics #FreeMarkets