A reassuring fact: Rising prosperity finally being felt around the world (interest, income)

[the tiger]

Still not where we were pre - global recession, but it is progress.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/2...ing-noise.html

[Quietude]

For certain values of "progress."

[NickL28]

Originally Posted by the tiger

Still not where we were pre - global recession, but it is progress.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/2...ing-noise.html

So what, the usa is well ahead of where we were pre recession. Why are we responsible for the well being of other countries?? -

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by NickL28

So what, the usa is well ahead of where we were pre recession. Why are we responsible for the well being of other countries?? -

You do realize that the notion that "The US don't need nothin' from nobody" hasn't been true since, oh, about 1620?

Not sure about the Norse settlements. Maybe they were totally independent.

[SWFL_Native]

Originally Posted by Quietude

You do realize that the notion that "The US don't need nothin' from nobody" hasn't been true since, oh, about 1620?

Not sure about the Norse settlements. Maybe they were totally independent.

Need and want are two distinctly differing things.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by SWFL_Native

Need and want are two distinctly differing things.

If you want to file a point on that and toss it again, feel free.

[Buckeye77]

Originally Posted by Quietude

You do realize that the notion that "The US don't need nothin' from nobody" hasn't been true since, oh, about 1620?

Not sure about the Norse settlements. Maybe they were totally independent.

If we want it, we'll take it. That's the American way

[cebuan]

The Chinese Alibaba group has expressed an interest in Lazada, an e-commerce entgerprise, based on this expectdation (from Wiki):

South-East Asia market has growing middle class income populations estimated 190 million people (2016) in the region with a disposable income of $16-$100 a day to grow to 400 million people in 2020,

That would be an astounding economic development. Lazada currently markets in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by NickL28

Why are we responsible for the well being of other countries?? -

Because the US is a global empire, and as a global empire, is had both the privilege and the responsibility of global stewardship. This was well-understood in the aftermath of WW2. Why in recent years is it getting forgotten?

[james777]

Originally Posted by NickL28

So what, the usa is well ahead of where we were pre recession. Why are we responsible for the well being of other countries?? -

You should ask that question to the globalist politicians who keep sending our jobs overseas.