Today, China alone holds more than $1 trillion in public and private American IOUs. Cumulative borrowing from abroad during the six years of the Bush administration amounts to some $5 trillion. Most likely these creditors will not call in their loans – if they ever did, there would be a global financial crisis.
-Joseph E. Stiglitz
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