As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.
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The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.
If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.
You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.
We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.