The market is the most effective mechanism for creating wealth and distributing resources to produce goods and services that history has ever known, but it goes off the rail sometimes; that if it’s completely unregulated, that if there are no thoughtful frameworks to channel the creative energy of the market, that it can end up in a very bad place.
BARACK OBAMA, press conference, Apr. 2, 2009
“That’s why I will overregulate the bejeebers out of the market – so it can end up in an even WORSE place. Barackalypse Ho!”
“The chief problem for the young bourgeoisie (middle class) is the problem of the market.” Joseph Stalin – Marxism and the National Question
…so yay for free markets…except when they’re free.