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How regulations protect big businesses

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!(click the picture)

Why? Because only big businesses have the resources to get over the regulatory walls the government builds.

Free the economy. Expose these behemoths to competition. Force them to serve the people and rid them of the privileges their lobbyists have gotten them.

After all, if free markets are so awesome for corporations and evil businessmen, why are none of them donating to the Ron Paul campaign?

(hint: because it’s regulations, not markets, that help corporations succeed)

“The market” and “the economy”

You want to know one of my biggest pet peeves? Terms like “the market” and “the economy” and “self-regulation.”

They’re bogus. They conceal how the world really works. They make it seem like trade and exchange are governed by some mysterious pantheon of gods from ancient Greece called “the market” and “the economy,” and hide the fact that when economists say these things, they’re actually talking about normal fucking people.

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