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Economic collapse: Don't blame the free market

A more realistic view is that a housing boom and bust happened to strike a fragile financial system whose fragility was worsened by ill-conceived government interventions.
Scope of $700 billion bailout bill continues to widen

The Treasury may back risky mortgages and include other industries in its financial rescue effort.
Credit crisis overturns free-market ideology

The next president will decide whether the shift away from laissez faire is permanent.

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What happens when ordinary people decide to pay it forward? Extraordinary change...

Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

Topic: Gerald O'Driscoll

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Economic collapse: Don't blame the free market

Scope of $700 billion bailout bill continues to widen

Credit crisis overturns free-market ideology

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