When free markets aren’t free
I just realized that from September until today I barely read the Washington Post, which means I pretty much missed Eugene Robinson’s column for 2 months. That’s a shame. On a Detroit bailout:
If there’s anything beneficial in this predictable melodrama, it’s that contemplating a taxpayer-funded rescue of the auto industry might make Americans realize the extent to which their government already puts its big, fat thumb on the scales of free enterprise. The idea that the U.S. economy is based on unfettered free markets is, and has long been, a cruel joke.
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