re: #164 wheat-dogg

The short-term effect of deregulation is to allow businessmen to make more money. The long-term effect is to force businesses, or more likely governments, to step in and clean up the messes created by the deregulation. Except, there has been no real “clean-up” of the mortgage crisis of the last decade. It could happen again.

Removing government regulation to promote business is like removing traffic lights to promote freedom of traffic. At some point, you reach gridlock and have to call in a traffic cop to get things moving again.