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The most important function of an open market is the price signals it generates. These signals, in theory, adjust the future behavior of participants, ensuring optimal use of scarce resources. For example, if the price of fire insurance increases, a possible outcome is the construction of fireproof homes using new technologies or fewer constructions in fire-prone areas.

What happens when the government intervenes in the market and dictates prices? If prices are lower than would've been otherwise, shortages of goods and services will take place. The Soviet Union in the past and Cuba today are great examples of that. Wasteful oversupply occurs when a dictated price is higher.

A democracy operates under vox populi principle. Thus the government is a collective will of voters. Since voters are humans they exhibit human-like behavior. That is to get things for less and ensure bargains into the future.

In states like California and Florida, an insurance commissioner, who is elected, prohibits insurance companies from pricing risks based on future expectations of natural disasters. Premiums were allowed to go higher so long as actuarial models were supported by past events only. Since natural disasters occur more frequently, looking into a rearview mirror to calculate premiums will ensure prompt bankruptcies of insurance companies. Since the government cannot force the rendering of services from private actors, the industry reacted with a very rational decision and mostly left these states. Acquiring fire insurance in parts of LA became problematic. The number of homes without one jumped. Coverages have gotten thinner from a remaining state-funded company. That was the backdrop before the recent devastating fires.

For more nuanced coverage take a listen at Patrick Boyle's video.

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The most important function of an open market is the price signals it generates. These signals, in theory, adjust the future behavior of participants, ensuring optimal use of scarce resources. For example, if the price of fire insurance increases, a possible outcome is the construction of fireproof homes using new technologies or fewer constructions in fire-prone areas.

What happens when the government intervenes in the market and dictates prices? If prices are lower than would've been otherwise, shortages of goods and services will take place. The Soviet Union in the past and Cuba today are great examples of that. Wasteful oversupply occurs when a dictated price is higher.

A democracy operates under vox populi principle. Thus the government is a collective will of voters. Since voters are humans they exhibit human-like behavior. That is to get things for less and ensure bargains into the future.

In states like California and Florida, an insurance commissioner, who is elected, prohibits insurance companies from pricing risks based on future expectations of natural disasters. Premiums were allowed to go higher so long as actuarial models were supported by past events only. Since natural disasters occur more frequently, looking into a rearview mirror to calculate premiums will ensure prompt bankruptcies of insurance companies. Since the government cannot force the rendering of services from private actors, the industry reacted with a very rational decision and mostly left these states. Acquiring fire insurance in parts of LA became problematic. The number of homes without one jumped. Coverages have gotten thinner from a remaining state-funded company. That was the backdrop before the recent devastating fires.

For more nuanced coverage take a listen at Patrick Boyle's video.

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January 2025

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Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements.
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