[thechat] "I guess we'll buy them"

Andrew Forsberg andrew at thepander.co.nz
Tue Sep 18 15:55:59 CDT 2001


>  > Anyway, let's just buy Afghanistan.
>
>With a GDP per capita of US$800, it wouldn't take much....

How would it work? I mean, three problems come to mind: 1) immediate 
and crippling inflation; 2) corruption and hording by officials / 
taliban; 3) sustainability problems compounding the inflation problem.


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