from the part, Why Firms Invest Abroad
". . . the bulk of foreign direct investment takes place between highly developed countries where rates of return are very similar."
No surprise that developed countries by far trade with each other and that's exactly what free trade is about. I don't think that anyone argues that point.
It's Red China that's the problem for me.
On my quick scan I did not see why invest in an developing country that steals your intellectual property and demands such things as you take on a "partner" who will own at least 51 percent of your venture. I believe that is some of the conditions for being allowed access to the cheap labor.. regardless
I saw nothing about the profit of putting FDI into a country openly boasting of building a military to take on the U.S. of A.
As you noted in you next to last post, you’ve been trying to talk sense into people for the last ten years. For me it’s been about 17 years. By 1995, I was trashing what were doing. When I realized what we were up to with regard to China, I spoke out against it, and stridently.
You and I would like to talk sense into people, but as I noted to one other person on this thread, nobody listened to Winston Churchill until it was too late either. We should expect folks to hear us any better.
I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but the Free Traitors are not going to listen. I am a Capitalist to the bone, but Capitalism can be twisted to the extreme and become an evil tool.
Those who push what is taking place with China, are evil.
Our kids and our nation will pay dearly for this treachery.
You are absolutely right, what you are trying to relate here. I appreciate your contributions.