I see the term liberalism being bandied about when talking about deregulation. I’m not very familiar with politics, but that seems to be something more familiar to the conservatives (republicans), than the liberals; I’m not very comfortable with the attempt to pin deregulation and the rest of it onto the liberals. Enron for instance; http://www.economist.com/node/938154 — shows it as something more in tune to the conservatives. Even in the present USA political climate, the conservatives continue to push for deregulation. I guess what I’m saying is that it reads to me as attempting to pass the buck to the liberals when it actually belongs elsewhere.