If you want, we've developed something, an extraordinary thing to help you get it.

If you want a big box of live ladybugs, if you want glue that even works underwater. If you want a Nicholas Cage

mermaid pillow, you can get it. You can get it from the free market, but the free market has a surprising opponent.

And if we're not careful, the free market will devour itself.

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Imagine walking your child to school each day.

Now imagine that you live in a rural area and part of walking your

child to school means crossing a dangerous river. That scenario is the real

experience of Imundu.

Imundu is a seven-year-old girl who lives in Rwanda.

She leaves home at 6 a.m. for school with her dad and crossing the river for them

meant wading through it.

Until last year, if the river was flooded,

Emundu and her father would be forced to turn around

and she would miss her opportunity for education.

Stay with us and later in this episode we'll share the rest of Amundu's story. You don't need Adam Smith to tell you that the peer-to-peer free market has an invisible hand, somehow figuring out the things that

you want or maybe even need, and somehow alerting people who want to fight with each other to help you get it

more easily and more cheaply. We call it the free market. The thing is this free market, buyers and sellers, people scurrying around

to try to figure out what others want, is fragile indeed. It's rarely free and it's hardly stable. And some people, the people

who have drunk the Milton Friedman flavor aid will tell you that the enemy of the free market is government regulation.

I'm not sure that's true.

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