If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a ‘failure of swimming'. So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a ‘failure of capitalism'?- George Mason University professor Peter Boettke, as quoted by Eamonn Butler in the London Times
RE: 'Where are all the dead bodies?'
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The saying *extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence* can be a
guardian against being mislead, but only when one recognizes a claim as
*being* e...
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