boston.com - 11/20/2008
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Amid the stress and storm of the financial crisis, "deregulation" makes a convenient villain. But the facts say otherwise.
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"Bloviating, grandstanding, bullying political hacks with little to no understanding"
sisu —
... this all an emotional reaction?
Don't ask us, but our gut tells us hype, playing upon our all-too-human emotional reaction to change, is a major player, the stuff of which political and journalistic careers are made and the reason why free markets aren't necessarily free in this "Republic, if you can keep it" of ours. We agree with Rand Simberg in his Pajamas Media essay "Want Change? Let's Try Free Markets," but don't hold your breath: Joseph Schumpeter famously — and admiringly — wrote about ...
Dissecting Leftism —
... than 74,000 pages every year but one. During the Clinton years, by contrast, the Federal Register reached that length just once. Amid the stress and storm of the financial crisis, "deregulation" makes a convenient villain. But the facts tell a different story: The nation's regulatory burden has grown heavier, not lighter, since Bush entered the White House. Too little government wasn't what made the economy sick. Too much government isn't going to make it better. More here ******************** ELSEWHERE Supremes to review citizenship ...
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