You misunderstand me. I am not a stereotypical "we know what's good for you" liberal. We share more views than you may suspect. What I do not share is your faith in corporations. They do not care for our interests, and have little reason to do so.


>I have zero interest in "what is best for us" as that kind of thinking leads to tyranny.
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>>Your faith in free markets to do what is best for us is truly touching.
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>>>Free markets depend on truth telling. Prices must reflect the valuations of consumers; interest rates must be reliable guides to entrepreneurs allocating capital across time; and a firm's accounts must reflect the true value of the business. Rather than truth telling, we are becoming an economy of liars. The cause is straightforward: crony capitalism.
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>>>Distorted prices and interest rates no longer serve as accurate indicators of the relative importance of goods. Crony capitalism ensures the special access of protected firms and industries to capital. Businesses that stumble in the process of doing what is politically favored are bailed out. That leads to moral hazard and more bailouts in the future. And those losing money may be enabled to hide it by accounting chicanery.
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>>>If we want to restore our economic freedom and recover the wonderfully productive free market, we must restore truth-telling on markets. That means the end to price-distorting subsidies, which include artificially low interest rates. No one admits to preferring crony capitalism, but an expansive regulatory state undergirds it in practice.
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>>>Piling on more rules and statutes will not produce something different than it has in the past. Reliance on affirmative principles of truth-telling in accounting statements and a duty of care would be preferable. Deregulation is not some kind of libertarian mantra but an absolute necessity if we are to exit crony capitalism.
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>>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704508904575192430373566758.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h