> I would be more than thrilled if we got rid of the free market entirely.
It is a market controlled by various lobbies focused on increased the shareholder value. How is it a free Market? In a free market, there shouldn't be monopolies.
Goverments first sitting idle and allowing the companies to grow like cancer and then rushing in to save them when they crash in the name of saving the economy is anything but free market.
Fine, I'll rephrase that as "I would be more than thrilled if we got rid of the allegedly-free market entirely." Let's admit that truly free markets are an unstable equilibrium and that government regulation can actually do some good, and let's stop being afraid of government-run markets.
It is a market controlled by various lobbies focused on increased the shareholder value. How is it a free Market? In a free market, there shouldn't be monopolies.
Goverments first sitting idle and allowing the companies to grow like cancer and then rushing in to save them when they crash in the name of saving the economy is anything but free market.