There's A Reason Why She Titled The Book, Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal

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:

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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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