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UndercoverElephant wrote:.... And it will probably be worst of all for the Chinese: 1.5bn mouths to feed, tens of millions of new car owners, economy dependent on cheap manufacturing.
They'll just call in their trillions of dollars of US debt. That's if the dollar is still worth anything.
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kenneal wrote:
UndercoverElephant wrote:.... And it will probably be worst of all for the Chinese: 1.5bn mouths to feed, tens of millions of new car owners, economy dependent on cheap manufacturing.
They'll just call in their trillions of dollars of US debt. That's if the dollar is still worth anything.
That is a short-term solution. It doesn't work after that.
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