Reply #3: The interesting thing is that some of those countries, like China,

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owe a lot of their economic development to investment from the US including the investment of the pension funds of Americans.

And almost all of them owe their "success" to the fact that they sold their products cheap in the US and undercut and destroyed our domestic industry.

What goes around comes around.

And, we shall see that when these countries agree on a new international currency, if they ever do, then they will discover that they have lost the goose that laid the golden egg -- the stupid American consumer who can be sold any piece of junk as long as it is cheap and shiny, makes a cute noise and looks like something that used to be quite durable when Americans made it.