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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

"Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.