Big government, bigger problems

One of the reasons we have weak growth in the Western world, and in the U.S., and in Japan, is because of government interventions with fiscal policies. Spending-supported by money printing-has led to an ever-expanding government as a percent of the economy. And the bigger the government is, the slower economic growth will be. The extreme is when the government controls everything in the economy, such as under the socialist/communist planning system.