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>China sits on a huge, huge store of American dollars, in the many hundreds of billions. The first person I heard mention this fact was economic historian Niall Ferguson,
That should read: ...China sits on a huge, huge store of American dollars, in the many hundreds of billions, and their purchases of our Treasury Bonds are the only thing keeping the dollar afloat, and are, in fact, funding our war against Iraq. The first person I heard mention this fact was economic historian Niall Ferguson...