Cryptlogon: US economy is not a free market

Columbia University Professor Edmund S. Phelps, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, and his coauthor, Saifedean Ammous, assistant professor of economics at the Lebanese American University, write that the U.S. economy ceased to be a free market some time ago.

Cryptlogon points out:

This system . . . is . . . an economic order that harks back to Bismarck in the late nineteenth century and Mussolini in the twentieth: corporatism.

Corporatism is a polite word for fascism. Crony capitalism is another term for corporatism.

In various ways, corporatism chokes off the dynamism that makes for engaging work, faster economic growth, and greater opportunity and inclusiveness. It maintains lethargic, wasteful, unproductive, and well-connected firms at the expense of dynamic newcomers and outsiders, and favors declared goals such as industrialization, economic development, and national greatness over individuals’ economic freedom and responsibility. 

Today, airlines, auto manufacturers, agricultural companies, media, investment banks, hedge funds, and much more has [sic] at some point been deemed too important to weather the free market on its own, receiving a helping hand from government in the name of the “public good.”

Why are businesses "too big to fail?" It's because the US Attorney General's Office, past and present,  is not aggressively pursuing anti-trust prosecution against these corporations that are "too big to fail." 

graphics source:   http://www.the-99-declaration.org and MAC Life

source:  http://cryptogon.com/?p=27405

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