Las Vegas tourism slumps this summer, signaling trouble for U.S. economy (youtube.com)

Regulatory unlock that's unique, providing capital, or being a buyer of companies, these 3 things, exemplified in the US government taking a 10% stake in Intel, indicate the free market has failed and the government is playing too big a role in our economy, said Friedburg this week. He said probably there's some form of socialism underway. A few years ago when I entered that point (most pronounced when the government bailed out even smaller banks, after bailing out bigger ones a few years before), everyone in the chat ridiculed me as if it were not even possible.