[kristjank]

I am not so positive about your view here, I was saying that free markets can be bad, but when a government acts as a free-market entity like a corporation, it gets even worse, because you can't bet against it and economically influence it the same way you can a corporation. That's not a statement against market regulation, it's a statement against goverments getting too many economists and too little humanitarians to run themselves and trying to maximize economic markers instead of the citizens' welfare.

[cupcakecommons]

When governments get involved in free markets - isn't the thing that makes this situation worse that the market becomes even less free? I can't understand your reasoning here yet.