You couldn’t be more wrong. We are currently regulated to death arbitrarily and immorally because criminals and politicians are always ultimately aligned. A level playing field is the answer which is obviously the reason we don’t have one! That is, the rule of law (not the rule of man which we have now in full force) and strong property rights which means strong INDIVIDUAL rights. I hope you haven’t fallen for the braindead assertion by leftists that the promotion of individual rights is somehow “selfish” or even dumber, racist. The precise opposite is obviously true on both counts.
Regulations are always drafted by the highest bidder (most powerful contributors to/owners of politicians) and result in de facto and outright monopolies.
Leftists are nothing but totalitarians at heart and in practice and good intentions do nothing to mitigate that fact. The last century has been absolutely dominated by leftists and we are far worse off for it. I realize that’s a preposterous assertion to the average lefty and maybe even the average “righty” but the facts are the facts and actions from the so-called right have been consistently very different than the rhetoric. The Republican party has been no more friendly to our natural (individual) rights than the Democrats. Collectivism has absolutely grown unabated and unchallenged for the 100+ years and we now have a complete idiocracy to show for it. The masses have been successfully reduced to livestock as was the plan all along.

Citizens United provided for a Corporation being a person. The “ corporate person” is charged with all the criminal offenses and the actual criminals continue to commit crimes and have no risk to what tbey have stolen.
Consumer Protection Agency: designed for an outlet for criminal complaints against banks and corporations for unfair criminal practices. Mulnany moved it under the Fed who are supposed to Regulate banks and don’t.
Glass steagall: designed to separate Commercial Banking from Investment Banking. Designed to keep customer’s property from corporate property. Robert Rubin, former CEO of Citi bank pushed Clinton for years to get rid of it. When leaving office Clinton agreed and Congress went along with it. Opened the door to not only commingling funds, investing against client interests, opening the Fed window to Banks like Goldman to have access to the repo markets, expansion of derivatives and dark hole trading.
Changing Accounting Rules to take Derivatives off balance sheet and expand the risk levels of already over risked banks.
Citizens United also increasing campaign contributions for Corporations opening the door for unbalanced corporate influence in political campaigns or buying politicians.
Eliminating post 1929 Wall Street regulations to prevent future occurrences (actual Act #s not at finger tips) but most all eliminated in last 20 years.
Dodd Frank to replace Glass Steagall but no regulations established to control derivatives which are now in the quadrillions.
Loosened liquidity rules for Wall Street
Appointed insiders to CFTC, SEC, Justice Department, Treasury, Fed, OMB, cabinet positions to block criminal prosecutions and promote parties over law.
Just a few issues without research on how deregulation has snd does destroy the Constitution and laws designed to protect the people from political and special interests. We have a crisis in corruption as a result with the tools to correct the problems undermined.
Forgot: No auditing of The Fed or Exchange Stabilization Fund. Not only do these suspect Agencies launder money the Fed also prints it and it is future liabilities to the people. It is unknown how many trillions have been printed and distributed because there is no Regulation and self regulation is a total farce. Sorry but that is a huge one as it puts pressure on the bought and paid for Citizens United Politicians to block expenditures for the tax payer because future tax dollars already spent on Fed unaudited activity. The unregulated activity is the reason no one can talk anymore …because the Treasury and future Treasury has been transferred to unregulated financial and corporate interests all over the Western World with the sanction of Elected Politicians.

Like 90+ percent of the population, you are strangely blind to the overarching corruption that is central banking itself. It is immoral/unsound and without any doubt whatsoever, unconstitutional. It is also by far the worst threat to America and individual rights/liberty yet you never call for its abolition. You’ve fallen for central planning at every level. Those three letter agencies that oversee every aspect of commerce and our lives are UN-American (and anti humanity) and make the fairness you seek impossible.
It is bizarre and illogical beyond words how “the people” clamor for collectivism and the end of freedom in response to corrupt people when in fact collectivism is nothing but corruption institutionalized. You’d think that people would want corruption dealt with head-on to preserve freedom but that’s not the case because people are uninformed, misinformed and gullible. They allow corrupt central planners and their politicians to tell them what they want. Freedom is the golden goose and should be defended as such. It has never been the cause of corruption and criminality. On the contrary, a truly free market is the enemy of corruption since bad actors lose market share to those who do things right and the attendant competition provides multiple market alternatives. In addition to being rare and fleeting, monopolies are earned in a free market. What we have now is the opposite. Monopolies (or virtual monopolies) are common, permanent and unearned. They are obtained and protected by political favor.
If we can’t even force our public servants to enforce laws already on the books, isn’t it foolhardy or worse to demand that they violate our rights in order to solve our problems?
There’s no such thing as a form of collectivism that is constitutional, moral or sound and it seems that you and a few billion others don’t realize that.
America’s founders clearly understood that collectivism (in all its forms including democracy) only makes sense if you believe that might makes right. It stands on nothing else for logical support.

We are close. Pretty much what I am talking about is The Fed being the focal point for destruction of the Country and Economic system and how they have been isolated from regulation by not only statute but by structural deregulation through procedural deregulation and appointment of special interest cronies who deregulate through policy changes and organizational dysfunction. When you eliminate fiduciary responsibility and give a private organization the power to print a sovereign’s currency and have it unaudited and unsupervised by the sovereign, you in essence, make it outside the law and put it in a position to transfer all wealth and sovereignty to a private enterprise without recourse. That is the ultimate lack of regulation (and corruption).

If the Federal Reserve was nationalized it would change nothing. The US gov is owned by the same people and even if it weren’t, politicians would do an even worse job of managing the destruction caused by central banking itself. Regulation can’t make central banking a good thing and even if it could, the people wouldn’t allow it. History, including very recent history, has proven that the masses will vote for exactly the worst and most undisciplined actions 100 percent of the time. Now more than ever (at least in modern times), the masses are severed from any understanding of reality especially pertaining to our monetary system and markets. If a politician can dream it, they’ll vote for it.
P.s., I have to point out that the shenanigans you highlight are just further evidence against collectivism, not capitalism. Big business hates capitalism because it hates competition and the law applied equally to all. Their success and continued power is based on using the people’s government against them in multiple ways which absolutely falls under collectivism. On top of that, the “capital” they get to tap on very good terms comes via the central bank and its ability to create deposits at will and at the expense of the people in the present and future. We are made to pay for our own servitude and falling prosperity through the issuance of that inextinguishable debt that Ford warned us about. Thanks to our dumbing down, we happily underwrite a tiny few anti capitalists’ efforts to make immense profits risk free in perpetuity.

Matthew has put down the great ideas written well…I cannot argue w anything…Thanx to Matthew for speaking to truth…the whole of our corrupted chaotic confused culture was laid out…EXCELLENT

Jonsyl, you’re seeing things that aren’t there. The free market is definitely the enemy of corruption but that’s not to say it’s the cure. There is no cure and never will be and it’s the do-gooder lefty who obviously don’t understand that.
Zero rules? Did you not read the parts where I mentioned the need for a level playing field and the rule of law and strong property rights? I’ve talked about this stuff for years here yet you can’t remember any of it? You know so little it’s difficult to engage you. Where do you get the confidence anyway? Money and economics are peculiar in that most people assume they have an understanding of the two despite putting no work into their understanding other than perhaps listening to shills on tv for a few minutes per week.
Are you done with the straw men?

Despite his economics quackery that is still pushed at the highest levels to this day (aiding and abetting the wealth-redistributing Left), Keynes himself admitted that:
“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
— John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Keynes’ paragraphs that preceded the above are also worth reading:

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.”

Ludwig von Mises stated it best 100 years ago:

“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.”
https://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS.html?chapter_num=39#book-reader

So Matthew, a hell of lot messaging without any answer to this dilemma we face, other than to find any number of sources to blame, the fed, the politicians, the gov’t, the mindless leftys, the people, all 90% of them. The shills that provide their views, some call it news, on all that’s happening and which most of the people watch. The 90% of course.
I wish you would just attempt to provide a constructive fix with this crisis, rather than perpetually complaining about all the woes we face, or quoting Lenin, Ford etc as your authorities from a century ago on our present state of affairs. Particularly as your world appears to be coming to an end. Mine has been ok for the most part with work, family, friends etc. I suspect that to be generally true with at least the majority of ‘the people’.

You can’t fix what you don’t understand, jonsyl. This crisis (your word) is over a century old and I’ve commented on it for years and years because few get it. There is no fix at this point if avoiding pain for society at large is your goal but waking people up to their complete stupidity is a must if you want any chance at stopping things from getting far worse for our freedoms/rights, among other things.
If you don’t know the truth about our corporate “news” then there’s probably little anyone can say to change your mind about anything.
I don’t owe you or anyone “the fix” and you’re not worth dealing with as a human being if you call what I’m doing “complaining” or assume that I’m quoting who I do because they are “my authorities.” I share the quotes that I do because I independently know them to be accurate. I’m sorry you’re too lazy or uninterested to understand what it is to value learning or knowing anything.
Your perception that my world is coming to an end says more about you than me. I’m sorry if reality is just too much for you but hey, the company you keep is over 200 million strong so don’t fret.
As for the majority of people being fine, I suspect you are right for two reasons: Ignorance is bliss and people are resilient to the point that they can get thoroughly screwed over for their entire lives and either not notice or pretend that it’s not so bad. I’ve seen it all and the 90% you have an issue with could easily be too conservative.

Ditto Matthew……………..
You can’t fix what you don’t understand, jonsyl. This crisis (your word) is over a century old and I’ve commented on it for years and years because few get it. There is no fix at this point if avoiding pain for society at large is your goal but waking people up to their complete stupidity is a must if you want any chance at stopping things from getting far worse for our freedoms/rights, among other things.

I think its tuff to find a system that is not corrupt.
One that works anyway.
The free market system of the “new world” was stolen, and as long as it could expand people thrived, white people that is.

Out of interest, where was/is this no corruption society?

Any system that is based on respect for our natural rights and holds them above the whims and desires of the ignorant mob would be as close to corruption-free as you could ever get.
It should be obvious that you can’t eradicate corruption from mankind and it should also be obvious that freedom and self-ownership are ideals that are completely free of corruption while the Left’s coercive intentions are the manifestation of corruption itself.

This is too idiotic for words: “The free market system of the “new world” was stolen, and as long as it could expand people thrived, white people that is.”

Do yourself and the rest of us a favor and pay extremely close attention to every second of the following 5 minute video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQk5INPEmNU&ab_channel=SowellTV

Ditch your indoctrination, you can do it.

Idiotic not to see the land in n.a. was stolen?
ok, use the word conquer, is that less idiotic for you?

I notice you could not name a single society that is or was free of corruption.
Maybe because that is a fantasy?

As for “natural rights”???

You havnt realized yet you have 1 right as G Carlin astutely pointed out, and thats the right to “right this way.”

I agree with jonsyl, quit the complaining and ” shine the light on the path forward and not perpetual harp about the problem.”

A clue tho, its never gonna change. Never has, never will.

Yes, not only was your comment idiotic, it was profoundly ignorant as well as racist. You’re an automaton for those who’ve so thoroughly brainwashed you. Do you think any peoples of any race held any aversion to conquering others 150 years ago and for millennia prior? Is there any real evidence that anything has changed today? Furthermore, do you think native Americans were nothing but wise and peaceful as depicted by agenda-driven Hollywood? Or do you suppose there’s a chance that they battled each other routinely and did ruthless things to each other? History matters. Context matters.
You Lefties have been conditioned to think that losing makes one virtuous and deserving of a halo. You’ve all been played by your leaders for your entire lives.

As for natural rights your attitude toward them is criminally idiotic to say the least and perfectly consistent with your undeniable ignorance. Why should anyone listen to you about any of your concerns with an attitude like that? You do realize that Carlin was a comedian, yes?

As for your strawman perfect society nonargument, I never said or implied that there’s been a society without corruption and you’d know that if you were decent enough to read what I actually wrote instead of opining on what you’ve imagined that I wrote.

You are correct, things will never change and I’ve said so repeatedly so you can drop the delusion that you’re informing me of anything in any way. The irony is that you and people just like you are THE reason things don’t improve. I have a feeling “b” is near and dear to your heart because you’re just as irrational as he is. We shouldn’t “complain”? Really???

On the bright side, individuals learn and change all the time and leave the dumb mob behind as a result. When you get enough of the right individuals to wake up, things happen against the will of the dumb mob. Those individuals are out there and, unlike me, most are probably smart enough not to waste their time with society’s most destructive dummies.

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — Bernard Shaw

Hey, ok. Don’t want to mess with God.

Thank you …….. Norrareal 1968………. Glad to see you are still around…….. It, is always nice, ..and great, when two or more are gathered…… sharing the light……. Blessings to you today……. Hoping you have a great day……….
Everyday is new again…….

God knows your heart………… even knows every hair on your head…………..

Dear Jerry, thank you for your kind words. Yes, I am still around even though I don’t comment often.
I have said it many times here, the metals will rise only and when the satanist elites who own/control all the central banks of the world decide so.

Thanks Norrareal1968………….. I think , I have to agree with you on the satanic bankers……