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The mixed economy combines the competition of capitalism with the strategic planning and power projection that only a government can both have a mandate for and can logically implement. True USA today is far from Laissez-faire but USA has never been Laissez-faire. USA always had tariffs and once had slavery. Today Trump is responding to the success of Chinas State Capitalism with the same because he knows the free markets will not deliver the rare earths that the US industrial combine needs to maintain the hegemony that US wealth has been built upon.

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The mixed economy combines the competition of capitalism with the strategic planning and power projection that only a government can both have a mandate for and can logically implement.

What mandate? They can't capture an island less than half a percent the size of their territory. If warfare is how you measure success then do something.

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Heavens mandate of course...

'They can't capture an island less than half a percent the size of their territory' You mean Cuba bro?

Poor Uncle Sams military industrial complex is crippled for a lack of rare earths and strategic planning.

What to do?

Trump can try copying Chinas State Capitalism model mixed economy hybrid vigour but hes definitely on the backfoot and playing catch up in a desperate situation precipitated by decades of neoliberal-libertarian US exceptionalist crony capitalist delusional hype.

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We don't want it. Cuba, unlike Taiwan, is trash. I wonder why.

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Sounds like sour grapes from a sad and crippled crony capitalist military industrial complex that has no rare earths supply and no plan to regain its hegemony except to copy Chinas highly successful State Capitalism Mixed Model Economy. They do say mimicry is the highest from of flattery...

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They do say mimicry is the highest from of flattery...

That's why you're holding BTC instead of RMB. Everyone is a capitalist when its their own livehood at stake, and a socialist when they want to control other people.

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Am a business owner and capitalist from way back but also understand the importance of government that provides the right framework, property laws, strategic planning, infrastructure and security for a strong economy. In the west the bankers have owned our governments for too long- that is why BTC is important. Most people are sheep and want to be living inside a safe and well fenced area, safe from the wolves who prowl upon those who do not have good government protection.

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In the west the bankers have owned our governments for too long

This is such a vague grievance. The issue is that the government prints money. That's it. Whatever they do afterwards with the money they print/steal is illegitimate because it's sourced from a scam. Do you think RMB isn't a scam? Everything premined, or infinitely minable by a single entity, is a scam. That's just basic tokenomics.

government that provides the right framework, property laws, strategic planning, infrastructure and security for a strong economy

If a government can be so smart and considerate then why has no government ever put a cap on the money supply? Why did the market have to invent its own currency to maintain economic stability?

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The problem is that you do not understand how modern fiat money operates. The vast majority (over 90%) of 'money' in circulation today is that issued by private banks- that issued whenever they issue fiat debt funding. Study fractional reserve banking until you understand how this works. Study modern banking and how private banks have come to dominate the issuance of money via bank deposits (IOUs for physical money) created whenever they issue debt. This is how the vast majority of money in circulation is created now- not by governments but by private banks. Understand this and then you might understand why and how the bankers have come to own our governments. The governments of the west are not smart- they are owned by private bankers who direct our governments. In contrast the Chinese government directs private banks and capital allocation and in this can and does operate its fiat system with the sufficient diligence and direction of fiat debt capital toward productive purposes to deliver a strong and growing economy. Bankers and their owned politicians in the west have immersed the west in a false narrative and you cliffbadger are drowning in their filthy lies that obfuscate their usury and rentseeking. Until you make sufficient study and realise it is the bankers who own your government I cannot help you further. All the best with your studies.