US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

[John Kelsey]

>From: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM
>To: jamesd at echeque.com, cypherpunks at 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)