Quote from: wannabud on March 13, 2012, 05:06 amBallast and no central banks, like old times, when capitalism had no crises. You've got to be joking. Maybe not as many government inspired market downturns, but definitely lots of recession/depression/credit crunch/price adjustment whatever you want to call it. Ever since inception, 3, 4 hundred years ago. Before that, there was no market economies worth talking about, scratch that, almost no economic activity at all. This is not an opinion, it's a historical fact, you can look at the statistics to see for yourself.