Apr. 7th, 2025

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"Никто нас не уважает, никто с нами не считается, все на нас наживаются, все хотят на нашем горбу ездить и за наш счет пировать," - сказал Трамп американскому народу.

"Ну, допустим," - сказал народ. "Что плохого может случиться, если мы примем, что это так?"

Сейчас увидим.
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Трамп: "We’re not going to lose a trillion dollars for the privilege of buying pencils from China."

(We're going to lose 10 trillion dollars for the privilege of not buying pencils from China?)

Милтон Фридман:

"Look at this lead pencil. There is not a single person in the world who could make this pencil.

Literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil, people who don't speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met.

What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil?

There was no commissar sending out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system, the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate to make this pencil so that you could have it for a trifling sum.

That is why the operation of the free market is so essential, not only to promote productive efficiency, but, even more, to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world."


Касательно последнего - конечно, как показало время, Фридман был неправ насчет причины и следствия. Прочный мир нужен для международной торговли, но торговля не является гарантией мира и стабильности.
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