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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ahda who wrote (15128)	8/13/2002 7:51:12 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82496

Darleen > the nation must sell itself as the financial center of the world and sell credit to the rest of the world. But what has happened is exactly the opposite --- the US is the biggest debtor nation in the world. The government owes, the people owe and the nation owes. In fact, the numbers are so big that one has lost count of how many zeros there are. Furthermore, in terms of the present arrangement, can one reasonably expect that the US consumer will continue, for all time, to be the "purchaser of last resort" for the production of the whole world?