Upside Down Economics

Good article the other day by Thomas Sowell on the financial crisis. He begins:

From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us.

What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s “greed.” That makes great moral melodrama, but it turns the facts upside down.

It was precisely government intervention which turned a thriving industry into a basket case.

Read the whole thing.

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February 20, 2009 | Filed Under Economics | Leave a Comment 

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