<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:51:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/free-market/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens When the Only Market Is the Black Market?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The term "Black Market" is shunned by most "law abiding citizens", but really, it is the only real market, and its seeming darkness is govern-cement propaganda. Today, the black market]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@builderofcastles/what-happens-when-the-only-market-is-the-black-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@builderofcastles/what-happens-when-the-only-market-is-the-black-market</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[builderofcastles]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:18:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pJD9LKQ1BG3NbSyKTowh8wnMyt99de3QoYRsiwMGCcbFSYgBFSqkRKtSBKcgPj84aGBLA1kkF4wTD8Atv4QEpB4HtPPW9Btozdkb9zaXKBY3Bc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism Is Dying, Long Live Capitalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[This post is different from my usual, because it is about how money is going to change, and how that is going to change everything. We do not live under Capitalism, we live is something like Crony-Capitalism]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@builderofcastles/5juvxa-capitalism-is-dying-long-live-capitalism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@builderofcastles/5juvxa-capitalism-is-dying-long-live-capitalism</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[builderofcastles]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:42:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJa5zNbRVVrXnjUH7HeFHWfeS6aA7zmCiHPimYyLkfYRDVVVLvk1X3D7XyAWSEpxa2BTEXidutwLjrm2s2Cz5JgMogMr1EPeLgW7NKbDYa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is NOT...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is NOT corporatism. Capitalism is NOT cronyism. Capitalism is NOT protectionism. Capitalism is NOT mercantilism. Capitalism is NOT a fiat-financial system built on (State) incorporation. Capitalism]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@paulvp/capitalism-is-not</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@paulvp/capitalism-is-not</guid><category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paulvp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:30:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZT3HzV5tJDiU2ik81PCd4JCyhWnRcDN8XJsVFY3UNB8DCaL7pGsixzcCatJQoNhFcd4dNs8VdZ6dETy8zgh67pwrepovtzsNu9aD7Yco6ou6SLEwsQ8sncJLyEvZDWSdNeHenVCZh5pXbnuaT85YPbpAd4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The End of Capitalism and Communism.  And Good Riddance]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems in discussing Capitalism, Socialism and Communism is that these are not accurate words. They are more pejoratives used to beat the other castes with. The definitions each adherent]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/the-end-of-capitalism-and-communism-and-good-riddance</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/the-end-of-capitalism-and-communism-and-good-riddance</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-110786]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[builderofcastles]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:59:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJa5zNbRVVrXnjUH7HeFHWfeS6aA7zmCiHPimYyLkfYRDVVVLvk1X3D7XyAWSEpxa2BTEXidutwLjrm2s2Cz5JgMogMr1EPeLgW7NKbDYa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's so bad about big corporations?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern big corporations are not bad because they are “big” (that’s a symptom and not a cause). They are bad because they are “corporations” (i.e. incorporated into a State) and State-protected and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/corporation/@paulvp/what-s-so-bad-about-big-corporations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/corporation/@paulvp/what-s-so-bad-about-big-corporations</guid><category><![CDATA[corporation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paulvp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:31:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgf8M6qJB5UzQL5ckFawoxj8FCbDNAZ7nFpNwuDuVsurXngqYSHit7qr4GaqyudNLvAEws7J9cJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Insider Trading to Become Acceptable Business Model?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sounds weird but I think this will play out in a very weird way. 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I ordered Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, and while waiting for the books, I'm discovering her interviews. I can only say that I found]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@steemmillionaire/ayn-rand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@steemmillionaire/ayn-rand</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[steemmillionaire]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgFmYVTiQFSwJoD89qyxBfNznRPM65yMcRcbEUSP1LTPF1ztV19Y8GDBwpjwi4RHjsS8YJe62rr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[There’s Nothing Free Market About Federal Reserve Planning of GDP]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Only Closed Economy is the World Economy While the Sassoon family is most associated with London today, its grand commercial history goes back many, many centuries. The family first reached prominence]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@johntamny/there-s-nothing-free-market-about-federal-reserve-planning-of-gdp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@johntamny/there-s-nothing-free-market-about-federal-reserve-planning-of-gdp</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-150329]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[johntamny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:44:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGH8jAGKwy4b3a2PfUvAfAu3sSMarmi9Mqie7FbpKGD8QkRHPfiuEV7q5is9qmc2qgH9Z3kwAmcwz7AMGtXJ9Zt6MaVtJ4EH3kJoJ9g7LA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The era of the Linux desktop is here. Ish]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moved to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@crell/the-era-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-ish</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@crell/the-era-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-ish</guid><category><![CDATA[programming]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[crell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:42:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Market Capitalism and Monopoly in this Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Large companies like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Walmart they say are monopoly, and they do not allow the existence of a true free market. Well, a lot of people are keen to this belief and they]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-175254/@ben-edom/free-market-capitalism-and-monopoly-in-this-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-175254/@ben-edom/free-market-capitalism-and-monopoly-in-this-market</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-175254]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ben-edom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:32:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKkzXhyseBP4PYz11eBDT8sW2oR1a4vfVFS6HYDdBP57CNAY2YPd63rBhUALbspoEk4HzArZG7o7tAyabpWejhm9SS2YufBYAn3QTpjUcK35BVj7aBmeCtJy5VL1977u8zu4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are Opened to Anyone, Executing them is Important]]></title><description><![CDATA[I remembered discussing an idea with my dad and at this time, it looked like the most amazing thing to me with the intention that no one had such idea. I was talking to my dad about it but my dad wasn’t]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-175254/@papa-mensa/ideas-are-opened-to-anyone-executing-them-is-important</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-175254/@papa-mensa/ideas-are-opened-to-anyone-executing-them-is-important</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-175254]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[papa-mensa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:52:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNtze9xHvT6xWCdz7q3QGD35ZKdaPpVrFksWkHyygKDShBVP8vfuaNPWc2uARRQab4wvYsPZ2S2rH2TDyYwN99GKMx4uakz5Lyw4UdWV1eCMJytWx7ktHHzhsTU83NAkpCTxCXx2DtYBjESL2bdUdP1XC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social infrastructure services]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moved to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@crell/social-infrastructure-services</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@crell/social-infrastructure-services</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[crell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving true story!! Pilgrim's failed socialist experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than two centuries before Karl Marx ... One of the first communist experiment gone wrong saved by the Free market and Private Property rights Str8 from the Governor's logbook]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thanksgiving/@tonypotenza/thanksgiving-true-story-pilgrim-s-failed-socialist-experiment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thanksgiving/@tonypotenza/thanksgiving-true-story-pilgrim-s-failed-socialist-experiment</guid><category><![CDATA[thanksgiving]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[tonypotenza]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:18:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday Ramble: "Bottom Fishing," and Other Realities of Free Markets and Capitalist Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[As many of you probably have gathered by now, I derive a substantial portion of my income from trading "this, that and the other" on eBay and other online marketplaces. I've been doing so for]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@denmarkguy/monday-ramble-bottom-fishing-and-other-realities-of-free-markets-and-capitalist-life</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@denmarkguy/monday-ramble-bottom-fishing-and-other-realities-of-free-markets-and-capitalist-life</guid><category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[denmarkguy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:13:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9WD24XfPTv6x2uSSG1d5jRouWkJeHc8XgCERdHFxTKDqCH2DdDzpNAGxrRqrzmwbZMmrJHeJEpezU2SjPbm7k?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Love Memes!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gotta love capitalism and the free markets!]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@mattynra/i-love-memes-xgbudh8q</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@mattynra/i-love-memes-xgbudh8q</guid><category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mattynra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:51:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjVtYhc8EyUCS1n2TpsbpKuDhBkZTQTi2NsGVP3cuDYfbsXixVvQgWGbmgsbgkgTnbNsifGVQafj63yDkr9GUZqbu4yrfHuHL4HZm6q8hHzoQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ I Love Memes! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something needs to be done about Corporatism in this country! This greasing the palms of Congress is bullshit!]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/free-market/@mattynra/i-love-memes-bkaurcld</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/free-market/@mattynra/i-love-memes-bkaurcld</guid><category><![CDATA[free-market]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mattynra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:33:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjVtYhc8EyUCS1n2TpsbpKuDhBkZTQTi2NsGVP3cuDYfbsXixEKbXf95dpgmg7PqnQCBakZ3kV8f6znpxEDoasREu3A9j9EzBTX5ashENw1ee?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free market means individual choice]]></title><description><![CDATA[(My Eastern New Mexico News column from November 28, 2018- posted in its entirety now that the paper's exclusivity has expired) I love the free market. The market, liberated from government rules, subject]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@dullhawk/free-market-means-individual-choice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@dullhawk/free-market-means-individual-choice</guid><category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dullhawk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 01:12:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNtYFa2T4QgnkjR9FeEBeQpt4GicHZEGhgBm5rhh9fogMvRrwvgEeZm3GrAgjmoDQQRUW97b7KFtPy9JcmpdtetdPfE5bgWfnHXqqEs2YmBZ69p98PiVjowPUo2yahsJGGogHwaCXPdBoZGCjAZ57Yhen?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safex is writing a new way for decentralized marketing]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAFEX | Crypto Currency Community Decentralized Cryptocommerce Blockchain]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/exchange/@realblockchain/safex-is-writing-a-new-way-for-decentralized-marketing-9f8fa9b12c9ce</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/exchange/@realblockchain/safex-is-writing-a-new-way-for-decentralized-marketing-9f8fa9b12c9ce</guid><category><![CDATA[exchange]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[realblockchain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 03:42:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSpZWhUgGYc3MngFqoAN3EGWZcFvohkS8arEJTg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why anarchy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.” ― Jeffrey Tucker]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@liberty-quotes/why-anarchy-1534780077</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@liberty-quotes/why-anarchy-1534780077</guid><category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[liberty-quotes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:48:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/KWcVEiwEzuiCuSt3rCYguztin8ANrpBrpFb2Rjb74xCsP6EitGA8HgeKh3NDnKoNhy5Tow4ofoB6oA5wae?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism.]]></title><description><![CDATA[“There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@liberty-quotes/there-can-be-no-socialism-without-a-state-and-as-long-as-there-is-a-state-there-is-socialism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/liberty/@liberty-quotes/there-can-be-no-socialism-without-a-state-and-as-long-as-there-is-a-state-there-is-socialism</guid><category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[liberty-quotes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:13:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5CEvyaWxjaEsGxi26i8dgeavRGfpzxYuyUKarZJhLvk1zZuVyUT5pYpya6sAGPeRxYAkWwTi9ERmNdqjt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>