To: carranza2 who wrote (77088 ) 7/31/2011 3:27:41 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 219953 china collapsed hit bottom and decided it was done exporting revolution and was done with revolution of the messier sort china decided it wanted to revert to its natural mean and got on with the job to sate 600 years of pent-up demand china decided to export manufacturing deflation, and the world decided it wished to import china manufacturing deflation america decided it wanted to export monetary inflation and china decided to import american monetary inflation it was a win win it may not be a win win it likely shall not be a win win only time can tell, in 7-15 months by typical american figuring, or 70-150 years by usual chinese tallying i figure we ought to have a hint w/i 7-15 years supposedly flexible america premised that america wanted leveled playing field and energetic competition allegedly communist china premised that it deserves its natural mean and can get back there via enterprise america is getting what it wished for, enabled by its so-called secret weapon the printing press china is getting what it bargained for, facilitate by the printing press it certainly invented, coincidentally along with ink, paper, and paper money both got the best dessert "fiat money inflation in france" can buy in actuality china was exporting what the usa was also exporting, monetary inflation, with the difference being that china had a lot more room to inflate than america ever had the capacity to stomach as the two large-capacity societies got hooked up via systemic hose but without adequate financial-political feedback loop, the lesser states hooked up the the main artery hose blew up first, and we wait to see what else may happen with the two main culprits at the end of the same hose whatever else we may say, we must say, "this time is different, for this time fiat money inflation is planet engulfing" is my read :0) recommendation: getgold for it is good enough for both hyper inflation as well as adequate for diaper deflation