>>>If you're rich, why lend money???
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>>The idea is you have the possibility of paying money back eventually, but have an urgent cash flow problem right now. You know, like Parmalat <g>.
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>If you're really rich, then you have no urgent cash flow problem.
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>Like Parmalat? Well, if the States are like Parmalat, then it's broke. Well, perhaps they are broke indeed.
I don't know, really. It may be that the general impression of a wealthy country is only superficial, and shaky, but I don't know.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
