Wall Street Journal Gold Article

@yup: Since you're unwilling to accept emails or private messages:

Trust me, I don't take anything personally, even in person, let alone the internet. I'm trying to get you to step outside of your bubblish world but you're very stubbourn and you talk yourself in circles. Good day.

PS. I love America but not when it spawns zombies. There's so much wasted potential, it's quite sad. Why so anti-China? (That's rhetorical BTW, I'm done reading these tunnel-visioned responses.)

Its beating a dead horse at this point but saying something will never change is foolish my friend.

Ill make one last point. Your mistaking individual company weakness for weakness as a whole which it does not have. If market strength is your indicator then we arent a super power either. Our markets are propped up by international companies such as apple and world players like google.

I do understand how the markets work and I've said all along that your right at this moment we can do no wrong. However I also understand history. Rome was once the sleeping giant that no one messed with until its was deemed weaker and people started poking at it. As much as China needs our money from sales we need their goods hence the stalemate. Theres no downplaying their influence in the world or the markets though. North Koreas leaders have power solely because China says theyre untouchable, thats a minimum a quasi superpower.

As of now they buy our debt but they have resources (as of now their the worlds largest rare earth metal supplier) and they have both military and economic might. The world changes a lot over the years and circumstances change. 30 40 years from now nothing says that circumstances will be the same. Empires have risen and fallen much faster than the 200+ years weve been around and every single one of them thought they were bullet proof. We are no exception and human behavior is rather predictable hence the existence of Game Theory. Technology changes but the human behavior is largely unevolved from ancient times. The day wont be tomorrow or this year or probably the next 20 years, but the odds overwhelmingly state that one day we will fall because we do think we can get away with whatever we want economically.

Only if we print less currency AND raise interest rates. While this IS possible, it does not seem likely in the near future.

As to China *never* being a super power... I bet that the Brits thought that about the US at one time. lol

Yes, and dratted militia too! lol

Anyway... the heck with all of youse guys! The world be FLAT because *I* believe that it be flat! !

Yup no offense but theres no reason to keep saying that. Nothing in history even remotely suggests thats whats true now will be in the future. The US wont even be a country for ever much less a superpower. At the very least if you are going to keep saying it at least try and support it with more of an argument than because you said so. Superpowers have changed throughout history and always will

We get it youre smarter than everyone despite not supplying a single fact

LOL! I wonder if all that self-stroking is causing any wrist or elbow problems. Perhaps a good sports ointment would help.