The Economist has a lovely example

of the Monetarist solution to economic woes.
What Japan needs is the separation of Commerce and State.
I am head of the Brooklyn Center Chapter of Bourgeois Shopkeepers Against Corporate Welfare (I wanted to add "Philistine" but it's not about art), and I say The People would be much better off if the Government (the guys with guns who can legally wave them around) would leave nonviolent, nonfraudulent businessmen alone. And ignore the pleas and bribes of the skanks who beg for intervention against more successful business foes.