They won't do it, it would be mutually assured destruction. With a US economic collapse we can't buy any of their cheap crap anymore. :-:

Yeah, true dat!

Fin'l Mkts are soaring, though!:rolleyes:

I'm sure they're preparing to call back some of it back. It will be fiscally impossible for them not to receive any return.

Honestly I would hope that they aren't that stupid. It would be a short term gain for a long term loss.

They need us badly as they have become so dependent on sending their exports here. If they cut that off, they kill the enormous growth they are seeing and lead their country into poverty.

I have a degree in history and would really like to think that the studies that led to such a degree would have imparted at least a wee bit of critical thinking and reasoning skill. I find the following impossible to reason:

I am looking for a revisionist biography on Billy the Kid. Find the book, and then as is normal, I look at the secondary purchase list..."customers who bought this also bought..."

A Billy the Kid biography has the following secondary purchased subjects/authors attached to it, according to Barnes and Noble:

*Benjamin Franklin
*Alex Rodriguez
*Chelsea Handler
*Pat Tillman
*Jerry Garcia

They'll have to do something sometime soon as they race to outspend themselves.

Depending on if and by what method I can join icurhere2 at the Berkshire annual, I may get a chance to see some of this vaunted scenery. ^

Then they'll be some report that brings them back to reality and it will pop. When the offical unemployment number hits 10% in next months reporting that's a major physiological when the news people will be saying "double digit unemployment"

Put that on a standardized test and chose the one that doesn't belong-OUCH


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I just won a free night at the Sheraton NY. I wonder if they will honor the Plat status?

China can kill us financially, I mean KILL. They own a vast majority of the tbonds, they can manipulate us at will.

Russia has paid off ALL their soviet era debt a couple years ago, and China is flush with money, they are not running in the red like we have been for decades. We have to get out govt spending in order or it will be our own doom and end as a nation.

Meh. You're looking for human reasoning behind a list of books when at its root it's just code running on a computer. B&N tries to tweak their code to come up with related content, but it's not perfect and sometimes it throws up a silly response. That is all. :-:

This is exactly the catch 22 in them killing our financial systems, they totally write off everything as a loss, and it will be astronomical.

One? I can't make a case for any of them. Even Ben Franklin is at best an extreme reach. I've been guilty of buying academic and pleasure reading in the same order, but seeing that list takes it to a new extreme for me.