who should be left to fail for their greed.  I again send you to the Friedman / Donahue video for an excellent rebuttal of this . . .  However, you are totally blind to the "greed" of government.  You accept with glee that the "free market" was greedy so you can grasp the concept of greed in a large institution.  But you, like everyone else, thinks that government won't be greedy as long as your party is in charge.  No if your party is in charge all the confiscation of wealth, loss of civil rights, torture, rendition, debt, soaking our children . . . all of this is not greed it is competent government.  Now when the Republicans do much the same thing it is greed and incompetence.  At every step government grows . . . the record shows that from the beginning of recorded history the most greedy institution is government itself . . . with its power to steal your wealth and restrict your rights in the name of the public good.   Read the Constitution.  Read the Federalist papers.  Read the Founding fathers.  What institution do they fear?  Do they fear the greed of the "free market"?  Or do they fear the greed of the government you wish to grow ever more powerful and confiscate more and more of our money?

You should indeed fear greed . . . but I posit you are focused on the wrong institution.