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Con: Can free enterprise boost the economy?
Unfettering free markets will only keep US mired in deep recession
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WASHINGTON — After five years of abnormally high unemployment since the Great Recession began, it is strange to hear people with access to major media still claiming that the solution lies in smaller government for America. It was not the government that got us into this mess; it was the private sector. An $8 trillion bubble in the real estate market was the cause of the Great Recession, when it burst.