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To: Road Walker who wrote (462779)3/10/2009 9:02:05 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1575142
 
"During the last depression most nations could feed themselves."

Excellent point. Sorry I missed that.

Yes, things are much more fragile now. No country is even vaguely self-sufficient. And trade has fallen off almost as much as it did, on a percentage basis, in the wake of the tariff wars after Smoot-Hawley.