In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.”
Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior to what?
Mr. Stern, who headed the Service Employees International Union, cited Andy Grove, founder and chairman of Intel, who concedes the 20th century’s “decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies.” That is true. However, both Stern and Grove proceed to assert that some unspecified degree of government economic planning will generate more prosperity than free markets. Stern writes that the “free-market fundamentalist” model that made America prosperous “is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century.” He argues that we should jettison our “empirically failing free-market extremism.”
Really? Pardon my candor, but what planet does Mr. Stern inhabit? For something to be “empirically failing,” it must first exist. Where in America is this supposed extreme “free market” system that Stern disdains?
In the United States today, government has largely nationalized the home mortgage market; cartelized the financial system; partially commandeered the….
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