主题：什么世道，冰岛竟向毛子求救！ -- 芝娃娃

Iceland Friedman visited Iceland in the autumn of 1984, met with prominent Icelanders and gave a lecture at the University of Iceland on the Tyranny of the Status Quo. He participated in a lively television debate on August 31, 1984 with leading socialist intellectuals, including President lafur Ragnar Grímsson. When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. What mattered was whether attendees or non-attendees covered those costs. Friedman thought that it was fairer that only those who attended paid. Friedman made a great impact on a group of young intellectuals in the Independence Party, including Daví Oddsson who became Prime Minister in 1991 and began a radical program of monetary and fiscal stabilization, privatization, tax rate reduction (e.g., lowering the corporate income tax rate from 45% to 18%), definition of exclusive use rights in fisheries, abolition of various government funds for aiding unprofitable enterprises and liberalization of currency transfers and capital markets. In 1975, Iceland had the 53rd freest economy in the world, while in 2004, it had the 9th freest economy, according to the Economic Freedom of the World index designed by Canada’s Fraser Institute. According to the index designed by the Heritage Foundation, Iceland as of 2008 has the 5th freest economy in the world. Daví Oddsson was Prime Minister for thirteen and a half years, to 2004. The present Prime Minister, Geir H. Haarde supports similar policies.

在帝国主义即垄断资本主义时代，国家其实就是大资本的工具，布什、钱尼就是大资本的代理，他们根本就是合二而一的。政府不仅在必要时会以经济手段来维护大资本的利益，而且在有必要时会毫不犹豫地以战争手段来达到同样目的。

只要我们客观地回顾历史，就不难发现：没有一个帝国主义国家是不经过战争自行退出历史舞台的。指望一场金融危机就让美国垮台和中国“崛起”的想法，虽然令人感到鼓舞，却很难令人信服。美国的金融霸权和美元强势，是它盘剥第三世界国家的外在手段而不是它的内在实力。美国的真正实力是它的军事、粮食武器和它对世界能源的控制。

美国的金融危机会不会引发中国的经济危机？