[elhombrelibre]

Ssh, don't tell Pat that. He thinks our money will never come back.

[hedgetrimmer]

Shhhh. Don't tell elhombrelibre, our assets are never coming back.

[Paul Ross]

Ssh, don't tell Pat that. He thinks our money will never come back.

Shhhhh. Don't tell yourself. The Red Chinese are now hoardimg $800 billion of currency...and they aren't buying our stuff. 5-to-1 trade imbalance. They buy only our production technology when they can't otherwise steal it or get it elsewhere...or they buy raw materials from us (as if we were a third world pesthole). Then they turn around and increase their export product to us.

Nor is the money, in any significant degree, flowing back via intermediaries. Go figure, LOL!