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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (67978)	11/11/2010 2:45:48 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217648

The meaning of the metaphor, "Harpooned every whale": Cheap energy was ne of those big marine mammals the author alludes to. It means cheap Natural gas of Canada was harpooned and it is no longer there. Same applies to cheap oil also harpooned. Idem for forefront of technological development that the US was ahead of any other country. Ibdem for the USD as rserve currency as private gold mine. Add demographic dividend Aand to good measure, do not forget ignorance of the foreign populations who could not compete.