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To: axial who wrote (37619)	2/3/2011 7:16:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 46821

Jim, thanks for the invitation to share the decision-making of the investment of my hard-earned capital with you and "hundreds of millions of Americans", but I prefer to invest it in the capital markets in the way that I see fit. < "As of this year, the final results of this American experiment in financial decision making are in. The allocation of this capacity exclusively to capital markets, rather than sharing that decision making with hundreds of millions of Americans, has produced a horrible result.> How about you invest your money how you like and I'll invest mine how I like? If you want the government or hundreds of millions of Americans to invest your money for you, send it to them and ask them to send you whatever is left from the dividends after they have deducted their costs. If each invests their own money, that would involve hundreds of millions of Americans in the decision making, without filtering it through grand collectivist schemes run by government kleptocrats. Mqurice

To: axial who wrote (37619)	7/5/2011 7:45:45 AM
From: axial	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

America's Troubling Investment Gap For the first time in decades, America is on net losing, not attracting, growth capital. "Meanwhile, the best related measure of our competitiveness as a nation—the balance of foreign direct investment into the U.S. versus the investment capital going abroad—is a red flag." online.wsj.com [The WSJ interpretation is based on neoliberal economics. Other economic analysis says differently. WSJ disregards financialization of the economy, wage arbitrage, globalization, and economically non-productive deployment of capital over decades. Regardless of cause and effect, investment is down, and misaligned with the economic virtuous circle. Government is the big investor; private-sector capital isn't playing its once-accustomed part. See petere's original post from 2008: Message 24993353 ] Jim