Foreigners will invest in the US when the US is a better deal than their own country. Thie is the situation with US real estate right now. I believe that Japan, Europe, and China will go down before we do. So to me it makes sense for them to park money here while their countries go down, then sell their American assets and go back to buying their own when their countries bottom out. (Then we will go down).
Cheese and crackers man...haven't you done any corporate work?
Right now the trend is for capital to flow to the USA for various reasons including that the next direction of the dollar is up.
Good analysis, but you might have the exact order wrong. Why do you think Japan will go down before Europe?