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Title: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 25, 2011, 07:08:09 AM
But we have to have massive government spending to get us out of this! ::)


IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Commentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016

By Brett Arends, MarketWatch

(Note to mods--the article has a video that I have no idea of how to bring over.)

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed.

For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.

And it’s a lot closer than you may think.

According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now.

Put that in your calendar.

It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power.



The rest is at:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-bombshell-age-of-america-about-to-end-2011-04-25?link=MW_home_latest_news

So, it's not unexpected . . . but it's now got a date certain.  I wonder how ol' Spooky Guy (Soros) is going to try to help this happen?
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on April 25, 2011, 08:35:31 AM
You mean nobody is paying it attention despite the IMF's fantastic and unblemished record of effectiveness and political neutrality???

 :sarcasm:
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: formerlurker on April 25, 2011, 08:46:00 AM
You mean nobody is paying it attention despite the IMF's fantastic and unblemished record of effectiveness and political neutrality???

 :sarcasm:

H5.  Exactly.
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: bitsoys on April 25, 2011, 02:43:01 PM
And yet the U.S., through entities such as the US Trade & Development Agency, continue to facilitate the long-term modernization of China for the sake of thew short-term benefit of a few US companies.
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: FreeBorn on April 25, 2011, 02:45:50 PM
Have a clue, bitsoys. Read the rules before you post and BTW we do have an introductions thread (hint).
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: namvet on April 26, 2011, 04:42:52 PM
ive also heard 2011. 12 and 13. perhaps the crystal ball is cloudy ????
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: true_blood on April 26, 2011, 07:45:25 PM
I saw this article yesterday and it pissed me off pretty good.
This Country is being run by nothing but anti-American scum. They hate what America stands for and that "evil" word, capitalism.
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: namvet on April 26, 2011, 07:50:12 PM
and the foreign buzzards are circling over head
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: true_blood on April 26, 2011, 08:03:24 PM
and the foreign buzzards are circling over head
Exactly what the imposter in the white mosque is wanting.
Title: Re: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
Post by: gurn on April 27, 2011, 11:29:01 AM
You mean nobody is paying it attention despite the IMF's fantastic and unblemished record of effectiveness and political neutrality???

 :sarcasm:

Bingo!

It's an anti-American cesspool.