nestork wrote:

It would be nice if they got their act together and stopped
dragging the world economy into the toilet. I for one would
be richer for it - but so too would they.

Since when is the USA dragging the world economy into the toilet?

Where have you been since 2008?

Do you know what Lehman Brothers is (was)?

It should be the Americans complaining that China is dragging the
US economy into the toilet by offering cheap labour for manufacturing
to American companies like Apple and others.

So you really don't understand how trade, debt and capital flows work.

China needs to keep a billion people employed. The US needs to export
it's outrageous debt. It's a symbiotic relationship that can't work
forever, and it will end badly.

The US economy is also improving (you just have to look at the
US stock market indices) as is the Canadian and European
economies.

US equities are unhinged from reality - thanks to Ben Bernanke and a
little something called "QE" - probably something you've never heard of
or even understand.

And it took a Canadian trader working at RBC in New York to figure out
that HFT existed and how it worked and how it was undermining the most
pivotal aspects of market trading in the USA.

It's awfully hard when Drudge and ZeroHedge posts a dozen stories
a week showing how broken and dysfunctional the US has become.
It's like they're not even trying.

I have no idea who Drudge and ZeroHedge are, ...

You clearly don't get out much.