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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1866831, member: 16729&quot;]Of course you&#039;re right.&nbsp;&nbsp; About it all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Being allowed pretty decent access to the North Atlantic economy certainly doesn&#039;t hurt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, it seems that you&#039;ve made my point though, too:&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the &quot;free&quot; market that guaranteed those foreign loans to Korean businesses.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the &quot;free&quot; market that told businesses into exactly what sector they were to go into and what product they were to make at certain guaranteed prices.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the &quot;free&quot; market that gave them production goals with guarantees of great rewards for success, and (personal...very personal) severe consequences for failure (very much unlike nowadays).&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the &quot;free&quot; market that bailed businesses out when they failed...and put them back on their feet again, &#039;hence their prosperity&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>When your country&#039;s greatest resource is USAID and over half the population have tapeworms and starve every spring, the utility of utopian &quot;free&quot; markets at THAT point in one&#039;s existence just might seem out of reach, perhaps.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the Brain.&nbsp; I guess what I meant was a &quot;disinterested&quot; brain, that would result in a consideration of the needs of most people over the long run.&nbsp;&nbsp; When the &quot;mechanism of incredibly complicated and sophisticated inputs&quot; creates something like the overinflated financial sector that isn&#039;t interested in generating finance for the real economy as much as just keeping on inflating itself, redistributing wealth to themselves, and bets against the rest of us and wins and gets wealthier as a result...well, that&#039;s where I get a little cynical about the &quot;free&quot; market&#039;s, uh, &#039;brain&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes, you want a freakin&#039; BRAIN to set it straight.</p><p><br /></p><p>And at the risk of getting back to the topic of coins, I think I should do just that.&nbsp; Even though I&#039;m a novice when it comes to them, I think I sound better when I discuss coins.&nbsp; Not so much macroeconomics.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sound less grumpy, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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