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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Markku Grönroos  wrote:   
      
   > "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   > viestissä:ddfr-9E5A64.11150317082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > > In article ,   
   > > valtsu  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > 2. The question that arises for me is why what you describe made more   
   > > sense for the Finns than simply selling their products through whatever   
   > > the usual channels were, and using the money to buy airplanes. Why set   
   > > up a special (I'm guessing Finnish) agency to sell goods in order to buy   
   > > airplanes?   
   > >   
   > There were no "usual channels". Simply so. Isn't this obvious.   
      
   No.   
      
   Presumably, the stuff being sold in the U.S. through a Finnish agency   
   was stuff that people in the U.S. wanted to buy, otherwise it would not   
   have been sold.   
      
   > Should the   
   > Finns have sold pulp worth a few hundred milliard dollars via "usual   
   > channels"? All the Americans had drowned in the smelly stuff.   
      
   Are you suggesting that the Finns, in order to pay for airplanes, sold   
   several hundred billion (U.S. sense) dollars worth of pulp to the   
   Americans? That strikes me as wildly unlikely. Either you aren't   
   following the discussion, don't care whether what you post is true, or   
   are extraordinarily badly informed.   
      
   Possibly all three.   
      
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