{"id":1745,"date":"2002-05-07T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2002-05-07T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2002-05-07T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2002-05-07T22:48:28","slug":"when_free_marke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/07\/when_free_marke.html","title":{"rendered":"When free markets aren&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block\">&#8220;Every time there&#8217;s a shortage or a little bit of a price spike, it&#8217;s always collusion or conspiracy or something,&#8221; Mr. [Ken] Lay [of Enron] said in the interview, which was also taped for &#8221; Frontline&#8221; on PBS. &#8220;I mean, it always makes people feel better that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><p>True.  We&#8217;re far too fond of conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, sometimes conspiracy theories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/07\/business\/07ENRO.html\">are true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbarol.com\/blog\/000360.html#000360\">Blather<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time there&#8217;s a shortage or a little bit of a price spike, it&#8217;s always collusion or conspiracy or something,&#8221; Mr. [Ken] Lay [of Enron] said in the interview, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1317,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/28\/mr_cheney_meet.html","url_meta":{"origin":1745,"position":0},"title":"Mr. Cheney?  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