indeed.
really fabulous deals like NAFTA (north american free trade agreement)
what i want to know is free trade for who???

anyways, i had better not go off on that tangent because it will rapidly
deteriorate into a serious rant. ;-D

moose.

On March  6, 2002 09:59 am, you wrote:
> > >deep pocket theory.
> > >
> > >you charge whatever the market will bear.
> > >
> > >lots of factors, cost of living, average annual salary.... blah, blah.
> > >
> > >not saying i like it either, but that seems to be the way of things.
> >
> > In a normally working free market economy the fact that a price is X
> > automatically means that there is probably a way to get it for Y where Y
> > < X, iff you look hard enough and spend the extra effort.
>
> In a normally working free market economy the price will go down to meet
> the real cost of production, which will itself decline as the production
> process is made more efficient. In the real world such things as tariffs,
> cartels and intellectual property rights impede this process.
> /\/\/\/*=Martin
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