[Mase]

According to the 2008 Economic Report of the President: "The United States is both the single leading recipient and leading source of foreign direct investment in the world.

Wow. Who would have thought that the US is the best country in the world to invest your money? Money flows to where it's treated best and it takes a lot of investment to grow our $14 trillion locomotive for the world economy.

I like Chuck too but maybe things aren't as bas as he'd like us to believe. It looks like gloom and doom has become a pandemic. Given our history, I'm glad to be investing aggressively now while the doomers are driving down the price of everything.

[expat_panama]

gloom and doom has become a pandemic.

That's for sure.  Negativism is bad not only because it's toxic and saps energy, but something worse is that nobody listens when the situation actually does become serious.  Y2K, global warming, why should a $7 trillion drop in private assets matter?