THE US financial crisis has pushed American policymakers to the wall, forcing them to devise rescue plans that run against the grain of free-market principles.
First, we had the packages that were meant to support mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This amounts to the nationalisation of the two giants whose assets are worth at least US$5 trillion.
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