Aid to Russia

[William S. Lear]

On Fri, September 4, 1998 at 10:48:32 (-0700) Brad De Long writes:
>...
>It is in the U.S. national interest and economic interest to have rich,
>industrialized, productive trading partners--not poor, unproductive ones.

Brad forgets rules of capitalization here: the National Interest is to
have (at least a few) poor ones, so we can threaten labor here with
replacement abroad.

I'm still mulling over his export/import figures during the Marshal
Plan years: anyone else notice something fishy in these as rebuttal to
the claim that the flow of aid almost matched that flowing into NY
banks?  My books are still in boxes, so I can't look it up in the
source quoted by Chomsky at the moment...

Bill