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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (47792)	3/25/2009 2:23:02 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217754

World became too big for the US. US reserve currency was for a minnows world. Germany, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan... It is all about Scale: Message 24715609 Once the rest of the world kicked in, and big economies started yup, the US economy was cut down to size. This factor has not been captured in the GDP figures and people was expecting that it will happen by 2050 (The BRIC story ans you know). But it was forgotten that it won't be a day in he future that other will take over the center of gravity of the world economy as it geographically moved. It wold be gradual. The US money making machine discovered that and started implementing artificial measures to boost US and some OECD countries to match the growth of the rest of the world. The result? Iceland piling up buildings by the water line and buying part of the UK. Ireland tiger (oh every minnow that inflated was always called a tiger!). This artificial measures are starting to reverse fast. Now lets get new reserve currency, cut minnows to real size and lets move on...