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| Category: Foreign Investors This category includes articles about the flow of investment from one country to another, either as portfolio investment, short-term instruments, or direct long-term investment. Deficit spending By John Schroy, on June 16th, 2009 |  2 comments  Foreign flows into US debt markets is down 99.2% from 2006 levels. In reaction to the profligate behavior of the Pelosi-Reid Congress, foreigners have been moving from financial securities and bank deposits into direct investments and miscellaneous assets, such as real estate. Continued deficit spending by the Obama administration should drive foreigners to seek safer, non-dollar havens. June 16th, 2009 |  Print Article |  Email Article |  Tags: Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi | Category: Foreign Investors | 2 comments |  Short urlThe decline of the dollar By John Schroy, on March 30th, 2009 | Leave a comment  Foreigners hold $16.9 trillion in dollar financial assets, accumulated through years of selling goods and services to the US. Profligate deficit spending by the Pelosi-Reid Congress increases the probability of dollar inflation. If foreign governments were to convert their holdings of dollar financial assets into non-financial assets, like US REITs, they can guard against dollar inflation. They might also gain a position that, in the extreme, would be against US national security interests. March 30th, 2009 | Print Article | Email Article | Tags: Bank of China, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, China, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, Inflation, Nancy Pelosi, REITs | Category: Foreign Investors | Leave a comment | Short urlWorld economy By John Schroy, on October 10th, 2006 | Leave a comment  Thirty years ago, about the time the world went off the gold standard, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This surplus of investment income from abroad has been gradually diminishing. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Does this mean that the US is ‘losing its groove’? October 10th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Tags: Baby Boomers, Capitalist Ideology, Corporate Governance, dividends, Globalization, gold standard, Stock Buybacks, US taxation | Category: Foreign Investors, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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