Sub-prime Bail Out

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Originally Posted by Radar

Markets can EASILY exist without any kind of government regulations or intervention. In fact they thrive without such intervention.

The stock markets could not exist without that regulation. To make it work - to establish rules so that trades are fair and equitable - only people trained in those laws and regulations can perform that trading. A free market as described would only subvert free market stock trading into a corrupt and avoided market. What makes stock markets so useful? They are safe and regulated places to conduct free market trading.

There is no way around some government regulations in all free markets.