Open Letter from One Non-Economist to Another

Tags: Value and Exchange, U.S. Economy

03/31/2009 Matthew J. Novak

Through your commentary, you provide intellectual cover for a system and structure of power that does not deserve your support. Would you consider that the truth may be vastly different from what you have come to accept as fact? Government’s role in regulating this system of human interactions has grown to enormous proportions. Because of this, we have had a system operating in America for some time now that cannot even remotely be described as free-market capitalism, writes Matthew J. Novak.

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