From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:ddfr-8F3DE4.13520821082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > In article <9thra49ecn79hm17n5gojal5n24eck4qr4@4ax.com>,   
   > James A. Donald  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:48:52 -0700, David Friedman   
   >> > it was in   
   >> > clearing rubles. And it looks as though the worth of those clearing   
   >> > rubles, from the standpoint of the Finnish business exporting, came   
   >> > from   
   >> > the willingness of the Finnish authorities to exchange them for Finnish   
   >> > currency.   
   >>   
   >> Indeed, those asserting that Finns benefited implicitly admitted what   
   >> they explicitly denied - for the "benefit" that they described was   
   >> always goods going from Finland to the Soviet Union.   
   >   
   > Part of what they seem to be arguing is the usual idea that exports are   
   > inherently good, independent of what you get in exchange.   
   >   
   > But it seems clear that there were goods, in particular oil, going the   
   > other way.   
   >   
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