[Willie Green]

Foreign investment is, of course, a very good thing. The more of it, the better.

Well you can sure tell that this was written in Y2K.
Since Dubya took office in 2001, Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. has drasticly plummeted by 80%.

[ckilmer]

much of that has to do with the implosion on wall st. from 2000-2002