Breaking economic principles down to a level so basic that they are meaningless.
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Originally posted by Spanky
Lula is about free market as they come. He has made the total goal of his administration economic growth. He may have once been a socialist, and may give socialist principle lip service, but his policies are free market all the way. The IMF and the business community love him.
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It occurs to me that you use the terms "free market", "democracy" and "socialism" in ways that may tend to hinder, not advance, this sort of discussion. But, OK. If Lula is about as free market as they come, how would you describe the people who ran to the right of him?
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