[Arkinsaw]

I am not sure how this is a bad thing. They cannot physically move the Chrysler Building out of the United States. They will want their investment to do well. They will still be required to pay taxes. Owning the Chrysler Building really doesn't diminish US sovereignty or jurisdiction over it in any way.

This is supply and demand at work, with capital and resources flowing in from outside to fill a vacuum. It is good to have foreign resources and capital flowing into the country for a change instead of it bleeding out to China.

[gorush]

I feel the same as you...the free market makes this an inevitability..but we do live in interesting times.

[umgud]

I see signs all around town stating that they pay cash for homes. Don’t know who is behind them. They buy houses at huge discounts from people who are about to lose their homes.

[vanishing liberty]

“I am not sure how this is a bad thing.”

Maybe you feel comfortable with Arab Muslims buying up America, but I don’t. When they own enough of it, they’ll start telling us what to do.

I say we stop buying oil from the Muslims, which is only funding their buyout of America along with supporting international terrorists.

[ROTB]

The question is, why don’t/can’t Americans buy foreign real-estate? What’s wrong with this country where on the whole we are so poor, that we must sell, rather than being rich enough to buy?

[paudio]

This is supply and demand at work, with capital and resources flowing in from outside to fill a vacuum. It is good to have foreign resources and capital flowing into the country for a change instead of it bleeding out to China.

This statement show the ambivalence that we all have about 'free-market'. Theoretically, we know that it's good for the economy (both the host and the investor), but at the same time patriotism won't allow us to do it.