Most regimes in favor of strict lockdowns in western Europe now have some of the worst covid death rates in the world. And now prolockdown eastern Europe is headed in the same direction.
A free market in money means real freedom to choose what money we use. This may mean people turn to gold and silver. Or they may turn to crypto. What's important is that it's market-based money.
Before I had read less than a hundred pages of this book, I surmised that the author was not an economist and definitely not an economist who had any “Austrian School” affiliation. Instead, I was sure he was an historian.