you know....recently, i have been chatting with americans on my trading platform, throughout the US trading hours for the last 2 weeks.... it is from these various chatters that i come to sample how disgusted they have been about their government, treasury dept, fed reserve bank, state of US dollar, and how this latest financial crisis have so badly affected many americans.
by the way, some of these fellow traders trade the big spfutures contracts, some mini-sp500, some T-bills, gold futures, stocks, options; the works...some with 30 years of trading experiences, some rookies, men and women...overall, some 1000 actively log on to this chat room with some 10s actively chatting...so, wide enuf an array of profile for me to "listen" to their woes...
just last night, there were comments about food stamps being handed out to americans who are barely above sustenance levels. the actual figure escapes me now; IIRC,either 1 in 4 or 1 in 8....can you beat that? food stamps like those dished out to Jews during nazi occupation... how can they be as rich as imagined by foreigners so far away ?
in a land so far away, many people still mistake US to be a land of gold (金山) mountains... this cannot be further from the truth... many common americans are suffering..no jobs, no prospect of rapid economic recovery...and some americans still foolishly want a strong US dollar now ???