I'm fairly sure that invading a hostile country with an endemic enmity toward our culture and ethics probably isn't a good idea.

Nor is focusing on popular but over-hyped "green" energy models that the ruling elites are heavily invested in. Solar and wind power have an Achilles heel that the smartest engineers on the planet have failed to overcome: darkness and no wind.

I'm certain that more promising alternate energy sources- like geothermal, Thorium based  nuclear power and fusion R&D, that have been overlooked and ignored because rich and popular Hollywood stars failed to invest in it, offers smart investors large long-term growth potential.

Too much debt.  Too much oil.  Too much government spending.  Too many freeloaders.

We have become a nation of excess, with the exception of intelligent leadership.

(Confidential to W L:  I am both a CPA and an economist.)

19th century - When France sneezes Europe catches cold

20th century - When the U.S. sneezes the World catches cold

21st century - When China sneezes the World catches cold

Metternich's original remark concerned revolution.

The 20th century version concerned economics.

The 21st century version also concerns economics but with what has been happening in China this past week there is now a real possibility it will also come to mean revolution.

Modern Chinese have accepted totalitarian rule by the Capitalist Communist Party for decades because the Capitalist Communists have continued to deliver economic progress for a sizeable chunk of the population.  But when the music stops it's going to get real ugly.