A lack of government oversight in recent years has plunged us into what may end up being the deepest banking crisis we’ve seen in 80 years; led to an obscene flood of dangerous, life-threatening products (including tainted medicines) hitting our shelves and has shown in disgusting detail how sickly cattle can make their way into our food supply. Enough may finally be enough for even some of the anti-regulation, small government types, as Elizabeth Williamson points out in her story, “Political pendulum swings toward stricter regulation” in today’s Wall Street Journal.

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