Bush deregulated and same thing.
What did Bush deregulate?
Any specifics, or is this just a feeling you have?
Housing, manufacturing & Banking to start.
It's funny everyone (pelosi, freddy, fanny, clinton, obama, harry reed) was responsible for the crash except the GOP or Bush. The actual perpetrators.
I shouldn't have to prove it to you. Did you have your head buried in a guys ass from 2000-2008? You forgot history already? OMG. Are you only 18 years old?
Well, "deregulation" is sort of a mantra in both parties, or was before the meltdown. Remember Slick having Gore cut out regulations. I'm not sure Obama really understands markets, or cares much. Elizabeth Warren's a new breed of cat. Reagan replaced Volker with Greenspan because, even though Volker spoke the same monetarist language, Reagan distrusted him on deregulation.
Neoliberalism holds that govts purpose is to facilitate entry into, and exit from, markets. Regulation can detract from that. But, on the other hand, Hayak didn't say "no regulation." If markets are not transparent, so that all players have access to basically the same information, markets will not achieve efficient results.
So, there's a tension. We have so much less regulation than in 1980 that its sort of hard to compare then to now. "What would Reagan do" sort of makes no sense.