The crisis in Texas is unfortunately a microcosm of the recklessness of our system. Not as bad on a federal level as in Texas, but it’s close enough that their situation needs to be a warning to us all: Do not let free market capitalism run your government apnews.com/article/texas-pow…

Texas crisis has governor facing big backer: energy industry

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov.

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Why Texas was so unprepared for this crisis: reuters.com/article/us-usa-w…

Texas's one-of-a-kind power system raises questions during price spike

A brutal winter storm that has left millions without power along the U.S. Gulf Coast and caused power prices to surge has highlighted the differences between Texas's independent power grid and the...

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Broad view is: Reds for themselves and their wealthy donors; Blue tends toward for and by the people.
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Their is no such thing as a "Free market".
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We don't have "free market capitalism" running anything. What we have is a mafia state engaged is price fixing, gouging, insider trading, and manipulation of the stock market.
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MSNBC and CNN have bowed to their r-wing overlords. We need a new site dedicated to the TRUTH... BLEFTBART
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Planned economies have such a stellar history.
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