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Mimicking markets: is that really a government's job?

Markets, and the people who make them, have been plunging politicians into all kinds of difficulties recently. The global banking market so over-reached itself that governments had to step in and rescue whole institutions from collapse using taxpayers' money.

Markets, and the people who make them, have been plunging politicians into all kinds of difficulties recently. The global banking market so over-reached itself that governments had to step in and rescue whole institutions from collapse using taxpayers' money.