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What does the text suggest is the lesson of the crisis in the U.S. economy?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is the Wal-Mart effect?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Free-market capitalism works best when balanced by government regulation.

Answer to Question 2

Wal-Mart is a monopoly so large that if manufacturers do not sell their products there, they run the risk of going out of business. Wal-Mart influences the wages and prices of not only its suppliers, but also its competitors.



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