“Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man” wrote economist Friedrich von Hayek in his 1944 masterpiece, The Road to Serfdom.  “The great thing about money is that you can spend it as you wish.  I might even be argued that the ability to earn and spend money freely is the single quality that most clearly distinguishes a free man from a slave.”  Read more... (236 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)