Jared Seehafer
What Laissez-Faire?
In response to the economic crisis now spilling over into the European markets, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an end to laissez-faire and an increase of government control over the financial markets.
“Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that’s finished,” Sarkozy said in a widely anticipated speech, his first in France [...]
If only all the Goldman partners thought this way
Over at the Huffington Post, former Goldman Sachs partner Greg Zehner writes that Ayn Rand foresaw the economic crisis the United States now faces, as well as the disastrous consequences the various proposed bailouts will have.
“Ayn Rand warned us this would happen. In the classic, Atlas Shrugged, she wrote about governmental powers manipulating markets in [...]
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