I think the main gap between your thinking and mine is that you see the pendulum now as basically hanging almost vertically, maybe even tilted too far away from government economic control. Evil capitalists still have too much maneuvering room, and we need more white knight
I see it as tilted pretty damn far in the other direction, and we need to start pulling some power away from the state.
The key thing you need to understand is that the "capitalists" abusing the system are using the government's power to control economic activity to do it. Go ahead, go down the list of names.
Give the government even more power, and it will just get worse. Some of the most corrupt societies on the planet are those where the government controls everything.
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- If the economy is fundamentally sound why is an instant $800 bailout necessary?
- Think of it as an economic "surge".
- Just had a terrible thought
- What we have just witnessed is the final triumph of Reaganomics, (n/t)
- No.
- Missed again.
- "I'm sorry, but people blaming this on capitalism or free-market economics are, to be blunt, ignorant on this subject, willfully or otherwise."
- And, on the subject of regulation and deregulation...
- No.
- "Why add to the burden to keep the wealthy, wealthy"
- Never trust the "this price is only good until you leave the showroom" deal. (n/t)