Thus said James Clawson on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:25:03 MDT: > but this is not the government regulating price - this is the > government refusing the import of products from an enemy nation.
This sure is a case of regulating price if I ever saw one. They may not have done it with the intention to regulate the price, but the simple fact that they are keeping products off the US market that would otherwise be in competition with US produced products means that prices here are artificially higher due to this imbalance. Remember, someone on this list did mention supply in demand... it applies here as well unless I am mistaken. Oh, and if you think the government is clean when it comes to trading with the enemy you might want to look into ``Merchants of Death: a study of the international armament industry.'' Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 8:49pm up 72 days, 5:27, 2 users, load average: 1.24, 1.33, 1.27 .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
