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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (135898)	12/16/2001 9:59:15 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

LOL -- "trade effects AND marketplace effects" -- Bill, try logic rather than meaningless mumbo jumbo. The discussion article published by the NY fed posted by you concludes as follows: "... because of the downward trend in private saving, the United States must continue to rely on foreign capital to maintain an adequate rate of investment spending." We are piling up debt. Because we don't save enough we import capital to invest and buy things. Because we are borrowing from foreigners there are currency implications now, and currency implications later. The effect now is to support the dollar at a high level as we sell assets and debt. The effect later is to depress the value of the dollar.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (135898)	12/16/2001 11:51:56 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 164684

>>as long as the US remains a disciplined and productive economy.<< america stood watch over the biggest hyper ether bubble in the history of the world. do you call that discipline? we were worse than tulipmania. is that your idea of discipline? wrt productivity, eventually you will be reading about america's faked productivity numbers in the mainstream media. why do you suppose they fake the numbers, william? is it b/c they are so good? ;-) so, you really do w/ gst, you just don't know it yet. :-)