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China to Buy $2 Billion Worth of US Mortgages
CNBC ^ | 8-17-2009 | Reuters

Posted on 08/17/2009 5:15:46 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe

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To: 1rudeboy
Simplest answer? China sees real estate as the better investment.

Looks like I will have to go back to school and learn Chinese

21 posted on 08/17/2009 6:53:31 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
No, it is because when the dollar is destroyed, they will own something real....They know our dollar is going to be worthless, so they are (de facto) buying our land cheap.

exactly.

22 posted on 08/17/2009 2:30:17 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
As we learn from Thomas Sowell (and, Henry Hazlitt), when you analyze economics, you have to think beyond stage 1 and on to stage 2, stage 3...for as far along as you can.

Step 1: Collect Underpants
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!

23 posted on 08/17/2009 2:33:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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