| I was going to make this very point. The much-ballyhooed Free Market doesn't work to general benefit unless it's regulated by government.
But you'll notice how, in these "Washington consensus" days, only the disasters get nationalized. The money-makers get privatized.
What this means is that the taxpayers end up paying for the losses incurred by our capitalist friends, but don't get to benefit from profitable state enterprises.
I believe Mrs Thatcher led the way in this respect.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |