spot on Dudley...It's an 'economy' built on loan sharking and credit bubbles. The financial sector has taken over nearly every category of business, and loaded them all down with debt at highly inflationary prices. The fact is there are certain categories of 'Capitalism' that need to be regulated and strong anti-trust laws in place and enforced, along with laws against predatory pricing by chain stores, or you will up a octopus of bankers and swindlers running a centralized economy no different than a Marxist run shithole. The only difference will be in semantics and sophistry used to glorify it.
the thing is, most don't realize the economically detrimental effects any unregulated system can assume being raft with the corruption and collusion of the powers that be......
~S~