Don’t Blame the Market  How the Federal Reserve caused the crash
By: Thomas E. Woods Jr.  The free market has failed. That’s the
verdict of the deep thinkers who populate our political class
and our academic and media establishments. They may not have any
idea what caused the crisis we’re witnessing, but they’re sure
it has something to do with “capitalism.”  As usual in troubled
times, government turns for advice to people who were completely
blindsided by what happened, had assured everyone that it
couldn’t happen, and had no idea why it did happen. Because
despite how foolish or inept they are and how little they seem
to know about why the economy acts as it does, another thing
they can be counted on to know for sure is that the solution
involves transferring more power to our wise public servants in
Washington.  This time around, a few dissenting voices have
managed to inject the names of economists Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973) and F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) into the debate. Any
libertarian or conservative w