In article ,
 Josh Hill  wrote:


> However, if the Chinese stopped manipulating our currency, the dollar
> would fall against the Yuan while the Euro could go up again to a more
> reasonable level. Again, won't happen with the current White House
> crew.

  Or the next, since most of the problems with their manipulating our 
currency is really involving them manipulating their own and keeping the 
Yuan artificially high. Nothin' anybody locally can do to mess with 
that. 

> Anyway, in the end and whatever our peculiarities, we're a first world
> (essentially European) culture with a huge monolingual population and
> vast natural resources. Those factors are I think pretty much a
> guarantee that this country will remain prosperous and influential,
> albeit as a secondary power once the more populous China and India
> have grown into their potential. Which is to say that I think
> geography is half the story, and culture the rest. Barring strange
> circumstances, I  think that we'll end up much like Britain and France
> are today -- wealthy, comfortable, and frustrated that we're no longer
> the biggest game in town.

  Gee we agree on something. Who'd a thunk it.
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