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To: Live2Sail who wrote (149711)	9/23/2008 10:03:59 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 306849

you're making the moral hazard argument in spades... and it's coming full circle... gov't 'guarantees' got us into this mess, and 'gov't guarantees are going to get us out? no, i don't think so

To: Live2Sail who wrote (149711)	9/23/2008 10:19:12 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 306849

IMO, This market was not completely free Of course, but it was pretty free, much freer than most countries. If anything, a freer market will have more extreme swings (booms and busts) while a more regulated one will be more stable, but at the expense of being more sluggish. That is the tradeoff. IMO, a totally free market will tend towards a gamblers world, with fraud and all sorts of scams rampant, but, as Jefferson so correctly noted, it would be packed with the willing. There is a lure to booms.