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Anarcho Capitalism/Free Market Anarchism

Free market anarchism or Anarcho capitalism is an umbrella term for a number of ideologies which believe that there should be no government, and a free market economic system, as opposed to anarcho socialism, anarcho communism, and anarcho syndicalism which focus on shifting ownership of property, companies etc. to the masses. Anarcho socialist types believe "Property is theft" while anarcho capitalists believe "property is freedom". Anarcho capitalists believe that a free market is the only truly anarchist economic system. The concept was popularized by Murray Rothbard of the Austrian School of Economics.
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capital account balance

the net purchase of financial assets in a country by foreigners. Put another way, the capital account balance is the net influx of money from overseas investors. It includes net purchases of domestic financial assets by foreigners minus net purchases of foreign financial assets by domestic citizens.

The capital account balance over short periods of time (e.g., a fortnight) is extremely volatile; over a period of a year, however, it usually offsets the current account balance. For example, in all years since 1980, the USA has run a large-to-huge current account deficit, but in most years it has run a capital account surplus that is almost as big as the current account deficit.
The capital account balance often permits a huge trade deficit to persist over several decades without a significant fall in the exchange rate of a nation's currency.
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capital

Joe: I brought 4 cases of beer.
Nick: Capital.
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Anarcho capitalist

A person whose philosophy is based on the idea of individual sovereignty, and a prohibition against theft, coercion and fraud. It sees the only just basis for law as arising from private property norms and an unlimited right of contract between free and sovereign individuals. From this basis, anarcho-capitalism rejects the state as an unjustified monopolist and systematic aggressor against sovereign individuals, and embraces anti-statist laissez-faire capitalism. Anarcho-capitalists would aim to protect individual liberty and property by replacing government monopoly, which is involuntarily funded through theft by taxation, with private, competing businesses that use physical force only in defense of liberty and property against aggressors. Hence, they believe that all goods and services, including law, order, and security, should be supplied through the mechanism of a free market.
Anarcho capitalists know that when you keep all of what you produce, you have an incentive to produce more, thus the whole of society benefits greatly from each individuals inherent greed.
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European Capital of Gun Crime

Manchester UK, a dirty decaying mill town in the north west of England inhabited by guncunians - famous for having a higher level of violent crime and shootings than Basra, Iraq!
I am a guncunian and proud of the fact that Manchester is the European Capital of Gun Crime!
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capital touch

The act of violating someone's knee or elbow with a slight touch with a hand or a foot in an awkward manner.
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Woke Capitalism

An arrogant, pretentious and self-righteous approach to critical social issues that immediately vaporizes when doing so conflicts with your financial interests.
"Yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are negative financial ramifications that can happen when you're not thinking about other people’s wallets and you're only thinking about yourself."

“Yah, that dude wasn't edumacated on the situation at hand and it cost me some serious bank.”
“He apparently didn’t get the memo on woke capitalism.”
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