Comments on: China and the U.S. economy: Fallows follows the money http://www.wordyard.com/2008/01/16/fallows-china/ Technology, politics, culture Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:52:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mary http://www.wordyard.com/2008/01/16/fallows-china/#comment-1685 Mary Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:47:33 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/01/16/fallows-china/#comment-1685 Thanks for blogging on Fallows' article. I was searching to find a piece from some years back (thought it was by Christopher Hitchens before he got so conservative) that said China could easily topple the U.S. economy by selling their U.S. holdings. As I recall it said China held 51% of ____ (something, T-bills?). Anyway, couldn't find it, but am very happy I stumbled onto this blog and your link to "The $1.4 Trillion Question" that pretty much gives the info I needed - thank you!! Thanks for blogging on Fallows’ article. I was searching to find a piece from some years back (thought it was by Christopher Hitchens before he got so conservative) that said China could easily topple the U.S. economy by selling their U.S. holdings. As I recall it said China held 51% of ____ (something, T-bills?).

Anyway, couldn’t find it, but am very happy I stumbled onto this blog and your link to “The $1.4 Trillion Question” that pretty much gives the info I needed - thank you!!

]]> By: China Trade Surplus Time Bomb http://www.wordyard.com/2008/01/16/fallows-china/#comment-1601 China Trade Surplus Time Bomb Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:46:20 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/01/16/fallows-china/#comment-1601 [...] Scott Rossenberg points to a very interesting article in The Antlantic.  In a nutshell China has a huge trade surplus undistributed to its people. A lot of it sits in US, UK and Australian government bonds. China is very sensible doing this for their economy in order to prevent inflation. It is an onerous balancing game not unlike controlling the flow of money to your children. Too much and kids don’t value it highly. Too little and they feel deprived relative to their friends. It’s a tough job being a parent, imagine doing that for billions of people. [...] [...] Scott Rossenberg points to a very interesting article in The Antlantic.  In a nutshell China has a huge trade surplus undistributed to its people. A lot of it sits in US, UK and Australian government bonds. China is very sensible doing this for their economy in order to prevent inflation. It is an onerous balancing game not unlike controlling the flow of money to your children. Too much and kids don’t value it highly. Too little and they feel deprived relative to their friends. It’s a tough job being a parent, imagine doing that for billions of people. [...]

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