With is usual panache, Robert Higgs here eviscerates the Big Lie that our financial debacle was caused to an insufficiency of governmental power.

This is like shooting clay pigeons. The folks who want to frighten people into supporting even more government power keep sending up the same feeble arguments. People like Higgs blast them to bits. And since truth doesn’t matter when you’re in the business of expanding government, they reload and send up another pigeon.