Word: mercantilists
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...apartheid regime accumulated more than $18 billion in foreign debt in the 15 years before it fell. Today, a democratic South Africa is left to pay its tormentors’ IOUs. By canceling the debt, we would both help Africa fight an epidemic and undo the mercantilist policies of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged Africa’s economy...
...helpful investment it would have been. For instance: Deutsche Telekom (whose network Malone was eyeing) now offers only 760-kilobit bandwidth to private users, whereas in the U.S. they can surf at the speed of 5 megabits. Again the basic mercantilist motto is this: "Don't help the consumer, protect the producer" - by keeping out foreign competition...