CARSON CITY The Silver State has always been a magnet to unusual, extraordinary characters. We’re talking Wild West gunmen, frontier survivalists and American Indian artisans, famous folk like Samuel Clemens (or we should say, Mark Twain), and far beyond.
we turn those small spaces into stand-alone images of a free space of trade. of a free market. all of the regulatory framework that is necessary to create a little space like that as a space of free trade. the illusion really is to think that there can be such a thing as voluntary compensated exchange that can occur without all of the mechanisms required to put it in place. the chicago board of board of trade is a perfect example. and institution we think of the ideals of the space of the free market. and institution constructed through enormous regulatory intervention. in other words a privately chartered organization that could indeed exist in some sense without having criminalize the other bucket shops in chicago. if you hadn t had the criminalization and elimination of all of those other spaces you wouldn t have been able to create that image, that illusion that this is a place of freedom. what i tried to get at in the book is what worked what it does for us to create