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The Insider - 13 Questions That Advocates of Free Markets and Limited Government Should Be Asking

On January 20, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. The president and the Congress face a daunting economic situation. The previous president and Congress responded to collapsing credit markets by offering up taxpayer guarantees worth approximately half the annual gross domestic product of the U.S. economy. With an avowedly more liberal president and Congress in charge, the prospects for free markets and limited government seem dubious. We asked some of the most knowledgeable experts to give us the outlook on 13 of the most important policy issues. Here is what they told us.