IN DEFENSE OF FREE MARKETS
August 08, 2008
August 08, 2008
MERCER ISLAND, Wash., Aug. 8 -- Rep. David G. Reichert, R-Wash. (8th CD), issued the following op-ed:
The economic slowdown has triggered panicked calls from some quarters for more government regulation and intervention in our markets. The author of a recent Puget Sound Business Journal column (Editor's Notebook, July 4 edition) blamed free markets for the rising costs facing suburban families today, describing markets as "inefficient and irrational arbiters," and callin . . .
The economic slowdown has triggered panicked calls from some quarters for more government regulation and intervention in our markets. The author of a recent Puget Sound Business Journal column (Editor's Notebook, July 4 edition) blamed free markets for the rising costs facing suburban families today, describing markets as "inefficient and irrational arbiters," and callin . . .