free markets

In my article for Libertarian News, I comment on the beautiful free market aspects that are highlighted by the show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. The article compares the recipe for private business to succeed with the coercion of the State, and demonstrates why private markets always promote...

... except for when we don't. I am surprised that there are people who claim to support free markets. Yet when the swing comes and the chickens come to roost on bad debt, what do they do? They blame the government and then ask for a bailout. The market is adjusting to something, I wonder why...

This thread is about the question: What is the right balance between the free market and government intervention to solve any of a number of issues? All political opinions are welcome: liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, libertarian socialists, anarchists... I want to hear your...