[quote=@The Nexerus] In other words, pretending to be Keynesian allows you to act more dishonestly and stick with the political whims of the day, rather than having a spine. [/quote] Also corruption is a lot harder to conduct when the invisible hand just does its own thing. Better for them to BE the invisible hand. [quote=@Vilageidiotx] Where this supposed absolute free market, where is the examples of truly free markets absent of tariffs or subsidy that prove the rhetoric? [/quote] electronic commerce. eBay being the prime example, but speaking of prime, Amazon, aka [url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-walmart-20150724-story.html]the largest retail entity in the world[/url].