The free market works?

Failures in the free market were not responsible for the great depression in the US. It was due to an influx of people taking out loans to immediately put that money into the stock market that caused the crash. The free market would've corrected itself. Agree/disagree/discuss.

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The political conditions of the era and increasing hold of the European governments over the Caribbean and general area that pirates operated lead to the demise of piracy. It's still viable (See South China Sea).