How do free market defenders explain current economies where

>>132850708
You can only have a monopoly when the government is involved

>>132850708
Greed isn't part of capitalism it is the disease that ruined it

>>132850708
that fish is clearly about to evolve legs

What is a fish pond if not a free market? Are there fish bureaucrats to regulate the number of small fish that the big fish are allowed to eat?

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>>132850708
A fish pond IS free market!
Whoever made this comic is clinically retarded

>>132850708
Present day is skewed relative to history as we are living in the QE-era of global finance, with central banks around the world dumping a cumulative $19T into financial markets since 2008. This has led to asset price appreciation (the bernanke wealth effect) and upper class citizens with brokerage accounts or 401k's see some decent income. The problem is that the lower half don't see anything.

That combined with the artificial suppression of interest rates that has occurred as a result of global CB QE, has destroy fixed income returns. Pension funds especially are fucked. This means that retirees and anyone living on fixed income is facing tougher and tougher conditions.

But I digress. The current economic paradigm is fucked. The unprecedented government intervention in 2008 saved the global financial system from ruin but also began embedding massive amounts of risk within the system.

The US Fed is already beginning to perform reverse QE by reducing the size of its balance sheet holdings. The central banks of the developed world will follow suit over the next few years.

What will happen when the primary driver of asset appreciation for the last 8 years not only stops flowing but goes into reverse?

>>132850708
NASA should be closed. It's state funded socialist shit. Space X will do the job

>>132850708
>free market
>gov spending

you can't be this stupid can you?

>>132851875

I know the difference but I meant: How can they explain the desire for more government spending when it is spending by central planners and not private entities with actual needs?

>>132850970
kys commie, greed or self interest is a big part of capitalism the only problem is goverment regulating and preventing small companies to form and provide the product for a lower price

>>132852174
o ok i get it.

You don't support gov bullshit it seems.

Sorry 'bout my previous post, mate

must be getting late here. nitey nite