老周,I happen to agree with Ace in many aspects, 請進。
(2008-02-01 19:42:56)
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首先,我最終可能不會主要投在Gold & Silver上,雖然我和他對美國經濟未來的走向有同感。我寧願意在corn, wheat, sugar, coffee,oil 上。 but, that\'s a different topic.
1) 美國的最大問題,不光是體現在trade deficit 上,更大的問題是current account deficits. Peterson Institute 最近在Ways & Means Committee 上的證詞上講。“The global current account deficit of the United States is now larger than it has ever been—nearing $800 billion, almost 7 percent of US GDP. To finance both the current account deficit and its own sizable foreign investments, the United States must import about $1 trillion of foreign capital every year or more than $4 billion every working day.” 美國現在主要的方式是,print money to take care of this. 這是讓Warren Buffet 和Jim Rogers 最擔心的事情。因為誰都知道,這種靠印錢來過日子的方式是不可能長久的。一年,三年,五年,十年,你認為能挺多長時間呢?
這種花錢的漏洞,有哪個Nike, Boeing, Google 會來補? 而且這也不是一年兩年了?
2)一個很重要的問題,在你的optimistic view 中missing的,是讓美國強大的經濟運作方式,並不是目前的運作方式。而是很強的製造業工業基礎,coupled with innovation,和strong middle class. 我不知道您是哪個行業的,從動態的角度講,美國從政府到很多企業對在美國國內R&D的投入意願和增長速度來看, 都處於flat & actual decrease的趨勢。 政府是budget problem,企業可以在越來越多的外包。而且是global 趨勢。 給你個例子,Lilly, Pfizer, 都正在中國籌建大型R & D centers, Astra Zeneca 在中國要spend 1 billion dollars to build R&D centers. 不因為別的,the technologically competent people can do the same things, only cheaper. 而Pfizer 剛關掉Park Davis, the crown jewel of research centers in US pharmaceutical industry. 我給一兩家公司做consults, 你看的出來,隻要能轉到中國,印度,東歐地方去做的,investors 是毫不猶豫,馬上demand managerial people 去這些地方做。也不能怪企業,這也是被花街給逼出來的。
3) 我同意你說的,A股還是貴。現在很多美國股票很便宜了(最起碼是表麵的),我也在最近撈了一些。我不買A 股,但對中國在美國的幾個ADRs看得重,隨著最近的花街的動蕩,它們也隨著洗澡水一塊兒扔出去了。
4)You are kidding, right? 每年GDP 6% 的trade deficit is no big deal?Remember, how do we fund that 6% deficit?
5) The article you cited deliberately missed one thing. The author thought he was hiding behind one major flaw of his argument.
Yes, in the past twenty years also, the large trade deficit has been correlated with 繁榮“。 But, how did US fund that deficit and 繁榮”? Use money printers, right? Thanks to Greenspan, the same guy who called subprime an innovative financial instrument? If he is THAT good as you guys believed, why are we all dealing with the current mess?