I hear this argument all the time, yet the events that would lead to the recession happened while I was politically inattentive. Could someone help point me to how government, not the free market, caused the problems we have? How it wasn’t “greed” that the free market would have allowed but poor gov…

The unregulated market caused the recession

John_James October 29, 2011, 12:22pm 21

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