Keeping the host’s seat warm on the set of ABC’s This Week until ace journalist Christiane Amanpour arrives, Jake Tapper invokes Alan Greenspan’s early mentor to ask him:
Isn’t it an indictment of Ayn Rand and the view that laissez-faire capitalism can be expected to function properly, that markets can be trusted to police themselves?
Of course, how can laissez-faire capitalism be blamed when it hasn’t been fully practiced since the days of the Roosevelts? (See also: Waxman, Henry.)
Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, as blogger “JammieWearingFool” notes succinctly, “New Taxes Crushing Small Businesses.”
Related: Investor’s Business Daily on “America’s ‘Free’ Falling Economy.”
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