[ex-snook]

Sounds good as long as we don’t loan [give] them the money to buy from us.

[Toddsterpatriot]

If we buy more from them, they’ll have money to buy from us. See how that works?

[Erik Latranyi]

Sounds good as long as we don’t loan [give] them the money to buy from us.

Why not? We would be lending to businesses, not the government. Our banks would make the profit on the loan interest.

[Kitten Festival]

Won’t happen - they are creating an actual economy in that country, with private-sector jobs and taxes. They are cutting bureaucrats, they are making it easy to start businesses, they are one of the very few that’s moving in the sustainable direction. They are going for it honestly. It’s so unlike most of the third world, whose only mantra is gimme gimme gimme. All these guys want is opportunity to trade without customs duties, same as Mexico gets.