Obviously it has markets of various sorts, but among other things: state ownership and direction of an extremely large part of the economy, massive restrictions on private and especially overseas ownership of assets and companies, frequent and largely arbitrary government interventions in corporate affairs, strict capital and slightly less strict currency controls, a legal system which is not friendly to private property interests, especially those of overseas persons.
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Those (nearly) all sound like good things. Shame about the human rights violations.
It's mostly all about degree though isn't it? Every country is sort of beholden to the markets on some level with varying degrees of government regulation and control. So this would be about where the line is drawn on the continuum (as opposed to some kind of clear black and white division)
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostIndiana does have an oversize pharma sector.
Trade deals such as this have about 1% of the impact on mid-term voters that Tubbs seems to think they do.
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Trump going after Blumenthal
And looking to send the boys round. This is a Mafia White House, don't forget.
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1046798381379551234
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Sidney? No great mischief if he fell.
Ah, Richard. Heel spurs is some fuckerLast edited by Lang Spoon; 01-10-2018, 21:30.
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He’s obsessed with Blumenthal at the moment because Blumenthal is the named plaintiff in the second of the emoluments cases that he is now going to have to defend after court shat on his motion to dismiss last week.Last edited by ursus arctos; 01-10-2018, 21:38.
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I’ve been thinking about this since the hearing, and the linked article does a good job of examining the issues
https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1046866956450717696?s=21
https://twitter.com/zoetillman/statu...450717696?s=21
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Originally posted by BrunoTrump sounded awfully hedgy at his press conference today. They know they're trapped in a sunk cost fallacy and the perjury stuff is sticking.
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At no point was Mr Kavanaugh a douchey, fighty, belligerent drunk...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/u...bar-fight.html
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I don't care if he was drunk or in a fight, nobody is qualified to hear complex cases of law if they can't even understand the simple lyrics of a band they like:
Poor man's anger rising
The ostrich hides his head
Soon the red blood will be boiling
And blue blood will be dead
While we say
Little by little by little,
And stone by stone
Rich man's mountain comes crumbling down
(Yes, I know UB40 have been shit for decades, but they had a couple of good albums out in the early 80's, and they weren't about red wine).
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