In the Nov. 11 editorial “Back to the beginning on fast track” the Tribune called for cooling down the debate. Agreed.
But before coming to the public, Bill Daley and Bill Clinton should heed the growing numbers of economists who are breaking ranks with the conventional wisdom that a free market brings benefits to our society as a whole. They are concluding that the free market results in a growing disparity between the upper and the lower levels in society, and that this disparity will have negative if not disastrous consequences.
Expanding free markets while withdrawing the safety net will lead to another “gilded age” and all its evils. The United States left that behind in the early part of the century. Bill Clinton and Bill Daley should not lead us back to it again.
