Re: neomercantilism, trade

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

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> CB: Here is risk again. I agree with what you say , but ..re: our
previous discussion of risk...the biggest corps use their power to
avoid risk.

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Right but that's not the same as saying risk does not exist or that
risks are never *taken*--passive third person. It's who creates risk
for who[m] that is of paramount concern when risk by definition is a
hot potato that never cools down and can,
metaphorically-surrealistically, get hotter. Same with taxation, the
ultimate hot potato. The emergence of the US as economic giant via
protectionism can be traced to Shay's Rebellion--a tax revolt, which,
while negligible in it's economic effect, sent a *huge* fright into
the early US ruling class, which was quite debt addled at the time...

Ian