The Bush administration is now considering a nationalization of banks, the American government buying up a portion of their shares to shore them up and restore confidence as part of the $700 billion government bailout. This notion of government ownership in the financial sector, goes against what market purists say they see as the foundation of the American system.

Credit is the blood of capitalism and it has ceased to flow. An economy based on the free market cannot function that way and it is dieing. We are witnessing the end of (at least), the full free market and (at the most), a turn toward socialism and complete government control of the largest market in history.

It seems that we are now witnessing the end of one country's freedom in order to better supply the empire.