[LowCountryJoe]

Perhaps I really should have put the proper punctuation on that last post. I am asking you a question, Willie! I really want to know which way you want it. Which do you prefer: being an importer or an exporter? To be the custodian of someone else's money that you pay them the use for (or have partial ownership and share risk with) or the lender (or investor) who gives it to the custodian who will presumably do the same as you did?

Once and for all, which way is it with you, Willie? Remember it cannot be both during the same transaction!!!

[Willie Green]

To be the custodian of someone else's money that you pay them the use for (or have partial ownership and share risk with) or the lender (or investor) who gives it to the custodian who will presumably do the same as you did?

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

-- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816