Commentary

Barack Obama – the Rooster Who Claimed Credit for the Economic Sunrise

By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, September 30 2009

Quick: Think of the last American economic recession, or even depression, from which we didn’t recover. Obviously, no such example exists. Our capitalist, free-market economic system has created more prosperity and human innovation than any other economic system ever conceived or implemented by humanity. The tradeoff, of course, is that market economies encounter occasional downturns, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill, “it’s the worst economic system ever created – except for all of the others.” By way of comparison, socialist economies…

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