Pei Ping.
I iz heartbroken.
After seeing thousands and thousands of those manufacturing jobs lost here to China, you won’t see me shed a tear for them.
at the risk of sounding repetitive, just let me state: I just LOVE a happy ending
Great. Now I’m gonna have to eat my countertops to get my daily allowance of melamine.
Where is ElbeeJay when you need him, mah fellow Ahmurican? Maybe TRickee Dikie know?
YOU DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH PEOPLE WHO GOT NO MONEY!!!
Thanks, Richard Milhouse Nixon....you stupid sh*t....thanks for nothing.
Well, maybe not for nothing....there's lead and melamine in our diet and God-knows-what else in the form of viruses and disease from China.
Thanks a lump, Nixon.
The Olympics are over and the water is cold.
[blockquote]I guess the Olympics are over.[/blockquote]
They really are. A couple of years ago a salesman from one of our data services came to give his annual forecast talk to the office and he said his personal belief was that the Beijing Olympics were almost completely responsible for the commodity bubble that had been growing since early 2003 and that China was inflating the world economy solely because of Olympic building and development. Oil was only around $50 then and he said it was going to go up rapidly and then drop like a rock right after the Olympics. Metals, too. We all thought he was a quack then. Now I wish I could remember his name.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
If their economy hits a hard crash, what’s to keep them from collecting their U.S. loans? They’re the largest holder of our deficit, which was good for them to finance as we bought their products and kept their people working.
If we stop spending, and they stop working, who’s going to feed them?
Besides China, the air should clean up some over Korea and Japan.
I imagine that once we stop being useful to one another, things should start getting...interesting.
Suddenly, even the Euros are figuring it out. Uh oh, they've been rooting for our demise so long they didn't realize what our demise would mean.
It’s about time for a war.
Manufacturing costs were going up, and the Chinese have begun placing mandates on employers for benefits for employees. I’m hearing these factories are closing and the land being turned back into farms.