Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

You've got two choices when picking a Treasury Secretary -- either someone like Rubin, who understands the markets well enough so he can speak to them, or someone who understands it's better not to speak at all.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.