What is the NFM?

New Free Market (NFM) is a framework for examining when markets stop functioning as markets.

It is concerned with alignment — between price, income, quality, risk, and real human capacity — in domains where participation is effectively compulsory and exit is limited.

NFM does not begin from ideology or preference.
It begins from structure.

When prices cease to convey usable information, when scarcity is amplified rather than resolved, and when participation becomes coercive rather than voluntary, markets persist in name but fail in practice.

NFM exists to identify those conditions and to document mechanisms by which market function can be restored.

NFM is not presented as a single argument, but as a body of related analyses.
Each document examines a specific failure mode, incentive distortion, or structural consequence.

The framework is best understood by reading the materials directly.

Recommended reading order:

1. Property as Stored Value
   (Foundational premise: how housing shifted from use to extraction)
    
2. The Scarcity Paradox
   (Why desperation produces both recklessness and paralysis)
    
3. The Moral Argument
   (Why market failure is often misdiagnosed as moral failure)
    
4. What Each Group Gets When Housing Is Aligned
   (Distributional effects without moral framing)
    
5. The Comfort of Bad Arguments
   (Why familiar explanations persist despite failure)
    
6. Supplemental Recap / Missing Parts
   (Clarifications, boundary conditions, and unresolved questions)
    

NFM is not a policy proposal, a campaign, or a promise of outcomes.
It does not prescribe a single solution, nor does it claim universal applicability.

It is a diagnostic framework — intended to be applied narrowly, revised openly, and abandoned where it does not hold.