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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (76819)	7/25/2011 2:40:18 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219795

It is the market sort people out. If you think you are special for too long it is not good. You relax. and the non-special people come to haunt you. "We attend a lot of meetings with Latin Americans and we used to complain to them about the problems they had, and now they like to say to us: 'That sounds just like the U.S.'," said Peter Hakim, head of the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy group in Washington. reuters.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (76819)	7/25/2011 3:05:04 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219795

I was discussing with an American lady here about GDP relationship to size of a territory, resources available and size of population. I continued to say that if country overshoots its natural size it returns to it. Give Japan as an example. To which she said, but Japan has intelligence. Indeed, I said. But it could not rely on intelligence to keep its stand. Only to shoot up there. Japan has only intelligence the way an oil country like Saudi Arabia has a single resource. Japan's resources cannot warrant an economy of that size. Intelligence can create things through which less intelligent people gets a view into the innards of things and start replicating that produce. Japan did that with the rollover strategy. Sending to Taiwan low end products manufacturing and moving upmarket. South Kora imported Japanese methods and then once it moved to China it took a life oif its own. Japan, slowed down, then stopped. And now is in reverse.