Sunday, April 14, 2013

free markets adapt

Markets that are “allowed” to crash, sometimes violently, are usually quick to adapt and evolve, something akin to Schumpeter’s “creative destruction.” They are dynamic, responsive, adaptive. In sharp contrast, markets that receive government / taxpayer-sponsored bailouts are “fragilized”-- rendered deaf to the market’s timely lessons and mute in response to the new demands and expectations of market participants.
-- Joel Bowman, The Daily Reckoning (April 14, 2013)