After 6000 years of reforms, revolutions, elections, regime change and millions upon millions of studies and books and conferences, one might start to wonder if perhaps we were not engaged in a fools errand. The possibility is enhanced if we understand the market is not the greatest thing ever stumbled upon by our ancestors. Supply and Demand cannot be reconciled but to assume individuals making individual choices will even begin to approximate a good balance is to prove one does not understand people or the situation most find themselves in. People cannot even make good choices for themselves. We take jobs with companies involved in criminal conspiracies; we buy major products and stocks from companies about to go bankrupt. Perhaps in some imaginary world the choices of governments and individuals will result in a reasonable response of supply to demand, but it is not going to happen with the people we have or the system we are in.