Барак Обама о свободном рынке с невидимыми ручками · Заметки

Барак Обама открыто признаёт, что идеи либерализации экономики, максимальной свободы рынка никогда не работали даже в США, никогда не выводили Америку из кризиса.
Это, конечно, речи для внутриамериканского потребления: за рубежом Америка поддерживает только либерализм - по вполне понятным причинам, я б сказал.

“The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If only we cut more regulations and cut more taxes – especially for the wealthy – our economy will grow stronger. Sure, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everyone else. And even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, they argue, that’s the price of liberty.
It’s a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade.