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Old 06-11-2006, 10:32 AM   #140
richlevy
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Originally Posted by wolf
Nobody's paid us for WWII yet. Oh wait, I kind of remember hearing that maybe Finland did ...
Well, actually, lend lease payments from the UK might be completed at the end of this year.

BTW, at no point have we lent out the trillion dollars in debt that are held in Asia.

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Together, the East Asian countries have accumulated foreign currency surpluses of nearly $1 trillion, much of it held in US Treasury bonds denominated in dollars.
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