In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis, a number of the largest U.S. banks have turned to sovereign wealth funds--the investment arm of cash-rich foreign governments--for large capital infusions to mend their troubled balance sheets. Additional large infusions of resources, which are to be expected as the subprime crisis...

What is there about a market economy that leads large numbers of people, including a lot of intelligent people, to believe that there is something radically wrong with it?