To Surprise of Ca, you describe beautifully the ruinous methods of Keynesian economics. Yet, an unrestricted market always leads to prosperity... but prosperity societywide rather than mainly in the "controling segment" you outline in all their coercion.
"Non Coercion" is your surprise key phrase and can tempt you to the alter of truth.
Over regulation strangles the market, while consequences of fraud are best balanced in the courts.
John Maynard Keynes is an unlikely hero for you to take.. with us on the edge of bankruptcy as such. Keep howling at the moon ;)
Ron Paul for President 2012.
Johnof NY6:27PM April 17, 2012
Vote for Ron Paul! Romney and Obama want to blow stuff up!!! YouTube search PNAC!
RonPaul Kicksassof CA11:11PM April 16, 2012
Romney the presumptive nominee? Have you read the political news in Colorado? Or Missouri? Maybe the media should report that news instead of this non news!
Romney = Obama, there is no contrast!
President Paul 2012!
Don WVof WV4:22PM April 16, 2012
Uh Surprise (below),
A free market is a market where prices are determined by supply and demand. Free markets contrast with controlled markets in which prices, supply or demand is directly controlled. Various economic theories require specific properties of free markets, for example, a perfect market with perfect information and perfect competition. Regulation which does not affect these specific properties can be in place without disqualifying the market as free under supply and demand.
Duhof FL3:58PM April 16, 2012
Uh, John (below), there is no such thing as a "free" market in which the invisible hand of the market allows autonomous actors to exchange goods. Markets only exist because governments enforce them. Places without government-backed exchange are called Somalia, Haiti, and Afghanistan.
In effective states, governments maintain law and order so that market participants can exchange property peacefully. They develop and regulate the currency used in market exchange; create and/or maintain infrastructure through which commerce flows (postal service, highways, roads, bridges, the internet); mediate private contracts through an independent, professional judiciary; protect private property through persecution and arrest of thieves, frauds, charlatans, and embezzlers; issue charters so that companies can issue public stock; promote intellectual property through patent and copyright laws; provide utilities (gas, electricity, water) that support market participants; and bolster international trade agreements through the threat of military action.
The so-called "free" market never existed. Government-enforced markets of exchange...they do exist.
Instead of damning the government at every turn or seeking to make it as limited as possible, we need to ask "How can we make this government-enforced market of exchange as effective as possible?" and "How can we ensure that it serves the needs of the American people, who, after all, created it with their government institutions, taxes, hard work, and military sacrifice?"
Surpriseof CA2:05PM April 16, 2012
Ha ha ha! The Republicans are a laugh a minute, they are running a man who cannot even run on his own record. Good luck with that!
Ponderosa Peteof NM12:10PM April 16, 2012
The serious candidate Dr. Ron Paul is 'in it to win it'.. for an American win. When enough of the Republican Party realizes that Mitt Romney isn't the guy this year.. it'll be Ron Paul for President.
Ron Paul - as opposed to Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich - will be a powerhouse against the failed Obama administration record. We're going as close to bankrupted as can be, corrupt politicians and money changers the exceptions.
Get ready for a return to free market principles in America.. finally. Ron Paul for a sustainable future. Financial responsibility, financial justice.
In Liberty and with good will toward all, our people shall regain the dignity that only the unenslaved can ever know.
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John of NY 6:27PM April 17, 2012
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Surprise of CA 2:05PM April 16, 2012
Ponderosa Pete of NM 12:10PM April 16, 2012
John of NY 12:06PM April 16, 2012