Balancing supply and demand in centrally planned economies is never an easy task.

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R. 3402 could jeopardize a momentous opportunity to establish that, in exchange for generous U.S. assistance to Poland and Hungary, the United States requires tangible progress on the part of the recipients toward reducing the costs of Western security and effecting the transformation of centrally planned economies into ones operating on free market principles.

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It has been the centrally planned communist economies that have ended up being destroyed by chronically low real returns on investment.

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