for the umpteenth million time, financed by who? Who will pay for this war? have all of you gone mad? I thought this was elitetrader not elitecheerleader. Just think if the chinese thought like you folks what they would have done(already). Dont any of you believe in free markets(think rationaly)? if you feel we are better off letting policy makers (domestic) deal in foreign affairs and uptake interventionist protocol, is that really free? so, you boys want to be SS? first you must prove you are SS!! you would not believe how communist you sound. Must have been trained at prussian volkshulen. How would you feel if the chinese came here and put guns to our heads in order to stop buying and selling their assets? If we did retaliate, would that make us terrorists? This sounds Bolshevik, swastika, vrilian, thulian, but not american. I am starting to think we really were hijacked by nazis some time ago. dont markets need to go up and down? What do you think I want my children to pay $1.3mm for a three bedroom house on a .2 acre parcel of land? If we owned enough gold, wouldn't that hedge our long position in the crumbling dollar? It was not my idea to kill the gold exchange standard. Last I checked it was done by a politician who got into office(USA-hint). waiting for your enlightened keynesian response....