The Chinese do so many things better than the USA; corruption, graft, arrogance, lawless banking, debt issuance, money printing, and malinvestment of capital - to name a few.

I stand by my prediction that one day we will wake up to the breaking news that China is imploding. It will either be a political or economic crisis, maybe even all out civil war.

I hope they hold off so that it is not a distraction from our own problems.

As long as we were humming along with the facade of a roaring economy with much money to be made, we capitalists turned a blind eye to the CCP shenanigans.

Analogy warning! Slowly and reluctantly the world is waking up with a severe hangover, rolling over, and squinting one open bloodshot eye to take a good look at the extremely awful person we spent a night of drunken passion with.

"Good Lord! What have I done? I hope nobody finds out..."

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"Economists are no different than the prophets of ancient Pompeii who reassured that Mt Vesuvius would never blow. After all, it never had before." Baxter Black, DVM and Cowboy Poet

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