Although hardly "free-market" in any doctrinaire way, the relatively free economy of Taiwan delivered immense growth in standards of living while many Chinese on the mainland starved.
The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.
A traditional argument for unbacked fiat money was based on the idea it was less-costly to produce fiat money than gold or silver. This cost savings could then enrich society overall. But recent data suggests this isn't true.
