November 9, 2010

The one true faith.

More than a century and a half of ignoring downturns in the economy never produced a depression as deep or as long as the 1930s depression, with its many federal interventions, first under Herbert Hoover and then under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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It is not a matter of faith that a market economy can recover on its own. It is a matter of faith that politicians speed recovery.
"The 'Gridlock' Bogeyman." By Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily, 11/9/10.

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