“Our export companies” (cit.)
Among the things I want to talk to you about on the 27th in Rome is the annoying tendency in documents from the Offices(TM) to insist on the role of exporting companies, which we mention in the title with the Draghian quibble (the savings that flow, the exporting companies). I report here some well-known statistical facts ( we talked about them a long time ago ) to give you an idea of why this bothers me, or rather, enrages me.
The necessary premise is that our country's foreign balance has undergone two significant corrections ( positive reversals ): the one between 1992 and 1996, and the one between 2010 and 2013. You can see them highlighted in this graph, where the balance is shown in bars (right-hand scale) while the import and export flows are shown as broken lines:
Now, there's one thing you should see at a glance, but it's easier to see if I highlight it, and that's this:
In 1992-1996, the adjustment occurred mainly through an increase in exports, while in 2010-2013 it occurred mainly through the repression of imports (after all, those were the times when "we were regaining competitiveness by destroying domestic demand", the times when "hospitals were closing", the times when "we believed we had to compete on wages" – respectively: Monti, Delrio, LVI).
The very brief moral of the story is that if you were truly interested in exporting companies—you anonymous official who's annoying us with your stereotypical prose—or more generally, if you had any idea what you're copy-pasting from some European document, then you should want the world in which they drove the adjustment, exports! What was there in that world that no longer exists? Come on, if you think about it carefully, you anonymous official who's feeding us your drafts written in European-speak, you'll get it too!
The anthropological adjustment we urgently need begins with what makes us human, namely, the use of the larynx, language. After all, " He who speaks ill thinks ill " is a left-wing phrase, isn't it? One of the many statements of principle that the left has miserably betrayed, and which we should appropriate, based on the usual principle of exploiting the adversary's strength.
Good night!
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/05/le-nostre-imprese-esportatriciui-cit.html on Sat, 23 May 2026 20:34:12 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.