[baybal2]

You are mistaking a cause, and effect here.

40 years of "misplaced policy," were a 40 years of actually very deliberate, and well placed policy called "monetary expansion."

Everything to facilitate the sale of US debt around the world, probably including a conscious effort to open door to foreign creditors at the expense of US industry was taken.

Chinese call this schema "You make all the work, and I make all money"

[dragonwriter]

> foreign creditors at the expense of US industry was taken.

Inbound capital transfers aren't “at the expense of US industry”.

[baybal2]

Loans, are not capital, by the definition.