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I agree. It's like properly managing forest fires. If you put out every small forest fire, you're eventually going to have an unstoppable blaze on your hands because of all the accumulated deadwood. I'm thoroughly annoyed that the Fed "stepped in" over the years at every dip in the markets and whenever someone cried "Boo!" But I think the recession we're talking about here is not of the vanilla variety.Quote from Rearden Metal:
You want to smooth out the entire nature and structure of economics so that boom and bust cycles never occur again? Recessions are <b>supposed</b> to happen, unless of course you'd prefer communism.
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You want to smooth out the entire nature and structure of economics so that boom and bust cycles never occur again? Recessions are <b>supposed</b> to happen, unless of course you'd prefer communism.
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So corruption is also supposed to happen, and these boom and bust cycles that are the consequence of unregulated greed and corruption, which generally hurt the poor to middle class the most, should just go on without treatment, regulation, or preventative measures?
I suppose you also think people should not use medication in any fashion to smooth out the pain...
Pure unadulterated unregulated capitalism results in extreme and unnecessary economic displacements...
So if you are saying that we should not do anything to treat and try to prevent medical problems, we should not assure that medication is regulated to prevent abuse and death as a consequence of allowing untested, uncontrolled, and dangerous medications on the market because drug makers can get rich...because physical and mental illnesses are "natural" then you would be consistent with your lack of regulation concepts...
However, I doubt seriously using yourself as an example with your drug addiction, that intervention, education and preventive care would not have been a much better approach...

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Ok, now you're just trolling again.![]()