In June 2010, this blogger wrote about The IHOTFM (Invisible Hand Of The Free Market)-Man in "This Modern World" and noted that The Great Wikipedia teaches us that The Invisible Hand
also known as the invisible hand of the market, is the term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. This is a metaphor first coined by the economist Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). For Smith, the invisible hand was created by the conjunction of the forces of self-interest, competition, and supply and demand, which he noted as being capable of allocating resources in society. This is the founding justification for the laissez-faire economic philosophy.
This blogger went on (and on and on) in that June 2010 post about the meltdown of the financial markets in 2008 and the despoliation of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Now, in March 2011, we have the Japanese nuclear power-plant disaster. It's perfectly reassonable for this blogger to ask (again): "How's That Hands-Offey, Non-Regulatory Thing Workin’ For Ya?” The coming Dumbo mantra is just a murmur, but soon it grow into a full-throated "Glow, Baby, Glow!" If this is a (fair & balanced) upthrust middle finger to Dumbos and Teabaggers, so be it.
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The Mosern World — "IHOTFM-Man Explains Nuclear Safety"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
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[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
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