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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:04 PM Original message |
So, what would happen if China quit lending us money? |
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LSdemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, if people stopped buying Treasury securities (US debt) |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-04 07:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
29. Fork in the road |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Have you ever seen Mad Max? |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. LOL, now that's funny. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. argentina |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why, then the U.S. would invade China. |
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rkc3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Now that's funny. |
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skypilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. See you on Thursday. |
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rkc3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. You think, bush would show up on Friday he's so fucking stupid. |
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skypilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Friday, a year from the invasion date... |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 03:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. China will post-date the check |
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Quill Pen (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 07:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. Chopsticks and Awe. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. We would have to invade China. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. if all the countries that soak up our debt quit doing it |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Well I'll be Dillinger and you can be Pretty Boy Floyd. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 03:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. by then we will be under marshal law |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 06:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. when the oil gets scarce that will create panic |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. They have too many dollars to do that |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-04 07:10 AM Response to Reply #11 |
27. There is no social security trust fund |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. I wonder when the world will switch to the Euro standard? |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 04:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. If We Keep Deflating The Dollar |
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Monkie (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 05:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. iraq tried that and look what it got them - 100,000+ dead |
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Monkie (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. largest carrier deployment in US history by China coast in 2004 |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. The chinese administration will be weakened.. |
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offcenter (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 06:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. China |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 07:12 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yes indeed |
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offcenter (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 07:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. And it is happening now |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-04 06:53 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Happening "now" - the pile on effect |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-04 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
28. A "run" on the markets and the dollar |
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