Sunday evening, as I was driving to drop Scarlett Johannson off at her hotel after a torrid, memorable weekend, we were talking about the free-market solution to the mortgage crisis. Now, as you know, Scarlett is a bit of a a lefty, but by the time we got to the hotel, she was nodding in agreement.<\/p>\n
“The market has an inherent wisdom – almost an…”, she thought, “invisible hand<\/em>, that is both faster and <\/em>smarter than thuddish government regulation”, she said, running her tongue up my neck under my ear as I drove.<\/p>\n I love economics.<\/p>\n UPDATE: OK, so I’ve never actually dropped Scarlett Johannson off at a hotel. But the real <\/em>point is, that most rational people will agree that the free market is the best solution to most problems, including – somewhat paradoxically and, to leftists, counterintuitively – problems caused by corruption and malfeasance in sectors of the market.<\/p>\n UPDATE 2: Lev from Miami writes “but you kicked off the story, correct as it may have been in economic terms, by claiming to have gotten this anecdote in the context of a “torrid, memorable weekend” with Scarlett Johannson. Isn’t that inherently dishonest?”<\/p>\n