[Texas_Jarhead]

Interesting article. Midway through reading, more specifically around the Huffy story, I flashed to a scene from Full Metal Jacket. The recruits are in the squad bay and Pvt Pile has gotten into deep doodoo. The DI tells him to choke himself to which Pvt. Pile grabs the DI's hand. The DI pulls it back and says don't grab my hand not get on your knees and choke yourself. And so the recruit did.

[LowCountryJoe]

Do you remember when Private Joker was in country and that Colonel asked him why he had the peace symbol and "born to kill" written on his helmet? And he said something or other about the duality of the trade deficit...how NET EXPORTS = NET CAPITAL OUTFLOW. In other words what he was saying was that trade deficits are equal to capital account surpluses and, inversely, trade surpluses are equal to capital account deficits.

Would you rather us be the lender feeding other countries' investments?

I believe in your tagline, do you?

[jb6]

I have a feeling that the vast majority of posters never got past the first paragraph and don't even know what the point was.