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thomhartmann

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Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:56 PM Oct 2017

Why Do We Have An Economy, for people or for profit? (w/Guest Julio Rivera)


Thom debates Julio Rivera from Reactionary Times on the point of the economy and the role of governments in the marketplace. Does the market exist on it's own outside of government or does it need the government to regulate it?

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Why Do We Have An Economy, for people or for profit? (w/Guest Julio Rivera) (Original Post) thomhartmann Oct 2017 OP
Because everybody has something that somebody else wants, or mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2017 #1
++++ JHan Oct 2017 #2

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,406 posts)
1. Because everybody has something that somebody else wants, or
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 08:53 PM
Oct 2017

wants something that somebody else has. An economy enables those exchanges to take place.

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