"The economic policies of the Bush administration do have a solid precendent further south, in Argentina, where "business-friendly, free-market policies would...allow the country to grow out of...budget and trade deficits," but where, instead, the economy collapsed spectacularily.

Remember the pictures of women in fur coats smashing ATMs in Buenos Aires after the banks froze everyone's accounts? The miles-long barter markets that took up positions down the middle of the national highways, allowing refugees to swap their meagre possessions for the necessities of life?" --Boing Boing

Listening to: "Chang" soundtrack by Fong Naam.