[jpsb]

"In fact after the US moved towards free trade in 1945, is when the economy took off like a rocket.

Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the USA emenged from WW2 with it's industrail base unharmed while the rest of the world's lay in ruin could it? Na, I didn't think so.

[raloxk]

"Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the USA emenged from WW2 with it's industrail base unharmed while the rest of the world's lay in ruin could it? Na, I didn't think so."

Interesting that you admit that the economic environment that prevailed after WW 2 was unrealistic, yet you cry as nations other than the US are now developing economically.

Germany after WW2 surpassed the UK per capita income in only5 years due to free market and trade policies.

The united states after WW2 actually engaged in unilateral freer trade, yet it didnt destroy the country's industrial base.