Sent to the National Post Sept 9 2008, back when the current recession was news.

On the front page Jacqueline Thorpe proclaims "there are apparently no libertarians in the depths of a financial melt-down". Well other articles in the same issue prove that there are libertarians out there and they understand this was the inevitable outcome of markets that were not free. The global collectivist nature of these actions is going to ensure a situation where the next meltdown is even bigger. But back to the point it's true there are no libertarians "apparently" on page one anyway. Why? I suspect it's because there are so few Libertarians, i.e. libertarians who formally identify themselves as such in the political part of the world. Bob Dylan sang "we live in a political world", and for me anyway that song's refrain is a sad truth. Your not on page one till you are elected so libertarians; get political.