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The Next Time Someone Tells You We Have Free Markets In The United States . . .

Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 01:38:03 AM EST

Be sure to show them this.

Then remind them that over-regulation exists in lots and lots and lots of other parts of the economy as well and that perhaps all of the shibboleths about how the free market brought about the current economic crisis ought to be rethought.

At the very least, you will guarantee a head explosion from your opposite number. And that might actually be fun to watch.

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by ZZMike on Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 03:33:23 PM EST
There's a blogger who came over from England, now a university professor.  In one of his columns he recalls that when he came over, someone asked him how it felt, coming over from a socialist country.

Today, of course, he could answer, "Just like home".



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