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...dream of a free-market Utopia, at least in the service industries, is alive and well and following the Grateful Dead around this land. If you get the chance, check it out when it comes to a stadium or arena near you. The love that Deadheads have for each other and for the society they have created keeps profit down and spirits high. And, as Jerry Garcia himself can tell you, without love in a dream it'll never come true...
Business is brisk, owing in no small part to the irrepressible spirit of Moscow's "hoboes" -- the term favored by the city's free-market hucksters -- who engage in a frenzy of buying and selling whatever goods they can lay their hands on. It is difficult to know whether these are the entrepreneurs who will eventually help rebuild the nation's economy or the scam artists who will pull it down. Perhaps they are a little of both. In any case, their impact has been undeniable: last year, by one estimate, hoboes moved 3 billion rubles' worth of goods...
Colombia's new President, economist Ernesto Samper, has no plans to take on the kingpins of South America's most formidable cocaine cartel without international help, he declared after winning Sunday's election. Conservative opponent Andres Pastrana, who wanted to push for greater free-market reforms but lost with 48.6 percent of the vote, intimated in his concession speech that Samper's reticence may have something to do with rumors that he accepted campaign contributions from the drug traffickers...
Clinton has had his successes. The Administration long ranked policy on Russia as No. 1, but that is turning questionable: Boris Yeltsin's progress toward building a free-market democracy seems stymied, and Moscow is no longer a reliable U.S. partner in diplomacy -- witness its on-and-off support of the Bosnian Serbs. Less ambiguous are Clinton's victories in winning ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement to create a U.S.-Canada-Mexico common market, and the pledge by the 119 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to lower trade barriers worldwide. Those reflect...
...Russians smiled smugly. Perhaps they were simply intelligent, experienced men trying to adapt to a chaotic world and beginning to understand how free-market economies work...