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Extrait du témoignage de Russ Roberts, professeur d’économie à l’Université George Mason, fait devant le comité du congrès sur la régulation des marchés financiers:

« Capitalism is a profit and loss system. The profits encourage risk-taking. The losses encourage prudence. Is it a surprise that when the government takes the losses, instead of the investors, that investing gets less prudent? [...]

I want a country where responsibility still means something. Where rich and poor, Main Street and Wall Street live by the same rules. We don’t need a Special Master to level the playing field. We just need to take the crony out of crony capitalism so we can get back to the real thing. »