Ok. So we parachute in with our retirement nest eggs. A whole fixer-upper country. People get put to work making a lot more than the $26/mo an MD makes down there. Does it change anything? We become financial imperialists as opposed to cultural and military ones. Gotta say though I’d love to see the country do a 180 towards freedom/capitalism over a 10-20 year (fastback) period. Big-time potential for a ‘little brother’. Would they buy in?
“We become financial imperialists as opposed to cultural and military ones.”
The problem is, if you are waving a dollar and the other guy is waving a gun, you don’t hold on to your dollar for very long.