Laissez Faire Economic Policies and Financial Crises. A rhetorical question for free-market critics: Do the following policies reflect a laissez-faire economy?
#1 – Artificially cheap money - America’s central bank regularly provide heaps of cash to their member banks, especially when unsustainable rallies stall and sputter. Liquidity is the cause and the cure. This is anything but laissez-faire.