How the world turns...
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Unless they're right, and you're wrong! Then there will be egg on your face!
Canada can watch the experiment.
edit: WFT? China?
Canada can watch the experiment.
edit: WFT? China?
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Influence of large corporations
No no no ... that's not TRUE communism! 
Anyway, the french have the freedom to choose their fates, in my view.
Anyway, the french have the freedom to choose their fates, in my view.
Little Raven
On Walkabout
France is free to do as she will, of course.
But though I commented on it, that wasn't the section I found most meaningful.
The dragons are waking.
But though I commented on it, that wasn't the section I found most meaningful.
The dragons are waking.
China! Yowza!
Little Raven
On Walkabout
I remember a conversation you and I had on this forum, a long time ago now. You talked about the meteoric rise of Asia that was coming; one that had the potential to wrestle the center of the world's economy away from the US. I scoffed at you.betazed said:
At least crow is low on transfats.
Dann
Green bug
Not news to me. It's why I'm here. 
I don't get why the French would feel that way about the free market system though.
Of all people! Why they were the ones who gave us the term laissez faire.
I don't get why the French would feel that way about the free market system though.
Of all people! Why they were the ones who gave us the term laissez faire.
Dann said:Not news to me. It's why I'm here.
I don't get why the French would feel that way about the free market system though.
Of all people! Why they were the ones who gave us the term laissez faire.
They thought they were repaying us for giving them Jerry Lewis.
Yeeek
Seizing The Day
Do you know its meaning though?
punkbass2000
Des An artiste
"Leave it alone", colloquially.
CIVPhilzilla
Reagan Republican
You can see a fairly close corrolation between those countries who embrace capitalism and their success. We must also get ready to fear the next economic superpower China.
Che Guava
The Juicy Revolutionary
Anyone else find it funny that CHina's support for free markets is higher than the US? 
Che Guava said:Anyone else find it funny that CHina's support for free markets is higher than the US?
me, not really!
I would be very surprised if you can get a high value placed on SOCIAL aspects in any poll in China! People there are not used to the concept of a social market economy. Thus, they are far more 'laizzes faire' than us.
betazed said:Which specific social aspects do you have mind? And this "social market economy" is a new thingy.
'social market economy' is the only term I know for what is being practiced in most of Europe: an economy that is free in broag terms, but has checks and balances in place to control those aspects that are potentially harmfull (control on monopolies, social security, pensions, disability insurance, product safety controls etc).
China is, from what I have seen, basically uncontrolled on most aspects (provided you know whose hand to grease). Chinese find the idea attractive that things always work fair - until they see their personal opportunities hampered by controls. Everybody for himself fights with a millenia old culture of caring for ones family and respect for the elderly - but remember, China is a culture in which the individual has to step back and where the loss of a strange person's life is regarded more with humor than with sympathy! They are simply different from us - same as Germans have (usually) slightly different views on some aspects than French, Americans have different ideas of how things should work than Swedes, Italians see values differently from Hutus.
Tank_Guy#3
Lion of Lehistan
A person's endless wants are best supplied by the free market system.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Tank_Guy#3 said:
Our endless greed can't be sustained forever, not even by the free market system.
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