Here’s a good article in Forbes.com.

Link

It has a some good points:
* The free capitalistic idea is that the government should not meddle too much in the economy. But much of the problems right now are caused by government meddling.

* The economy will be good if production is the focus, not consumption. Most of the current rescue packages revolve around boosting consumption.

Quote from the article:
“Now it is of course popular practice to blame economic problems, not on government intervention but on the free market. But observe that all of the most prominent problems today–problems with housing, financial markets, health care, oil–involve some of the least-free sectors of our economy, those with the most government intervention.

Consider the extent of government culpability in the current subprime meltdown. There is the Federal Reserve, which wrought havoc with the markets by manipulating interest rates, first setting them below the rate of inflation and then quintupling them.”