22 Oct
2004
22 Oct
'04
2:01 p.m.
From: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM To: jamesd@echeque.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)
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In developing markets the US track record is terrible. The more we interfere and set up puppet governments and petty dictators, the result has always been the near elimination of any kind of real modern economy.
More than that, some of the countries we've been kicked out or prevented from influencing have been modernizing rapidly, the most obvious example is China and Vietnam. Bolivia is interesting to watch.
So, Taiwan and South Korea seem like rather obvious counterexamples.
-TD
--John (Not a fan of interventionist foreign policy, FWIW)