[jerf]

Well, one of the developments of the last six months has been to put a lot of pinpricks in the idea that China is an inevitably rising world superpower that will inevitably supplant the US in the near future. I wouldn't say that's off the table entirely, but it's looking a lot more evitable.

[IllogicalLogic]

What we believe as American consumers and what is economically true are two different sometimes contradictory stories.