Over the years, several friends and Family members have encouraged me to read The Economist, ostensibly for the clear-headed and somewhat pro-market views. Yet every time I’ve browsed their site, I’ve come away disappointed. Not today.

I already have forgotten where I snagged this image (sorry!), but a quick trip to the web site confirms that this is indeed their cover for the current issue:

Now, my question is this: if the folks behind this rag are smart enough to come up with this graphic and have the cojones to run with it, why do they let their writers spill so much ink cooing over these very same agencies and propping up their socialistic, coercive “solutions”?