>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)
... >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)