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Deregulation and the 2008-2009 recession Aug 25, 2015

The idea seems straightforward enough: "The Great Recession has everything to do with deregulation and letting companies do whatever they want in the free market." It's an interesting premise that seems feasible on the surface. Of course the topic has been discussed elsewhere ad nauseum, and from all sorts of perspectives. One would get the impression by a quick Google search that, because literally every article they read assumes, in some form, that deregulation and a "return" to free market principles were the culprit, it simply must be true. As is often the case with popularized explanations of things, upon...