No. That's crony capitalism. Laissez-faire economists oppose crony capitalism. Please educate yourself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Thank you, but I lived in the US 13 years starting with Reagan's election. I have seen it happen in real time. And I have seen that here in Brazil too, before and after that. It was deregulation, not government intervention, that created the monster banks and all economic crises since then. [...] When the house of cards finally collapsed, they already had enough power over the government to force it bail them out with taxpayers money. That is where laissez-faire capitalism inevitably leads to.
No. That is where crony capitalism inevitably leads. Nobody here is arguing for crony capitalism.