“By one measure, the government already plays an outsize role in our so-called free-market economy —and it has little to do with the recession. Economist Gary Shilling has calculated that 58 percent of the population is dependent on the government...
An earlier version of this article appeared on American Thinker . This version appeared on my site, Monty Pelerin's World . Dr. Alan Blinder , Professor of Economics at Princeton and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (amongst many...