Your opinions are invaluable. Only a few days left in September, the G-20 has finished their meeting and have we "fixed" our problems or have we just ignored it?

How do future generations payoff the deficits and how does China offset the oversurplus without overheating? Will this be a "next generation problem" or is this a brief pause in the ongoing nightmare?

Thanks for contributing (Moon, Miss Scarlett & Jason).

Gordon ... look at the following link ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEDFgJACMcQ

Humor? Scary how people actually think that way. The next three months will be interesting. I predict a lot more "true colors" will come shining through. More of the meek are going to step into the spot light, shake their fists and finally say, "we're not going to take it anymore!!" The stupidity of government and all of it's pettiness and wastefulness is going to become more and more apparent. Not going overboard at Christmas will be the new "in" thing. A lot more people are going to wake up and realize there's more to life than money and stuff...

Well for starters, in October I'm looking forward to my first shipment of goods! I'd just been made a distributor of a prestigious German paper manufacturer for HK and Macau, and my initial stock arrives in October....so I'm well excited! In addition, we have the Chinese National celebrations coming up......and we are all excited here in HK.

Yes I heard about the gold rising to like $1,000 now...very high. I think the Chinese are very clever to invest in gold. But I feel they are just being prudent investors. After all the US is going through a tough-time at the moment with the subprime mortgage fiasco. But methinks China can do more. Maybe invest more into foreign properties? That could help them financially, and bring further stability to the West.
China can do a heck of a lot in this respect.

One thing is for sure, I believe everyone, whether they are a country or an individual, should have their own recovery plan in place right now whatever happens. Life has always been unpredictable, and the same goes for investments and what not. The wisest try to always build for the future, and the Chinese have been known to always look afield...in many cases, years ahead. That's why they are amongst the most wealthiest people in the world, aside from Indians and Jews. Because the Chinese always prepare. Just one look at the Beijing Olympics showed just how amazing the Chinese are when they come to perform. :)

Personally I'm not worried about anything happening. I look at it that I come from a line of ancestors who has endured many things, and that, basically I have their blood. Talking about bloodlines, my grandparents had endured WW2 and endured famine when the Imperial Japanese had occupied China. My granddad was sick once in HK, and I had relatives who were literally dying in the mainland. My grandma, who was the only person who could help at that time, was carrying one of her sons (my uncle on her back), and brought bags of cooked hardened rice (Faan Jeew) into the mainland so that members of her family would stop from being starved to death. They were hardened because electric cookers were not available at the time (which prevents overcooking). She walked for several miles to get to her destination from HK. Luckily she went on time, and her work prevented tens of hundreds of people in her village (including her own) from dying.

Years later, many of those people she saved became her long-time best friends. My grandma is now in her 90s and still enjoying a great life. No matter where she travelled in the world, she was always welcome to her friends' and their families houses. Because she and her friends, never forgot what happened.

For those who often criticise the Chinese today, and the way China is run the way it is today, they must try to understand why the Chinese now are so determined now as a country, to do the best in life, to be prudent, to think things through twice, and not make mistakes again in their policies (unlike the West). Because as a race, we have endured the greatest levels of poverty and famine that you could imagine, and we do not want this to happen again. And this teaching is instilled in our culture.

In retrospect, sometimes I look at what is happening in the States and UK today, is the result of past karma. It is said for people there is people karma, and for countries there is a country's own karma. If Britain and the West hadn't brought upon WW2, and the invasion of the eight states into China in the early last century, which brought things to the level my grandma experienced, none of what they are experiencing today would have happened. You have to remember much of Britain in the past had operated under the auspices of piracy and 'expansion'. If you look at nearly all the treasures that are housed in the galleries and museums of Britain today, they were mostly all looted from the member countries they had invaded. If things are looted, what good will come of it? None at all. This is why as countries, as well as people, as a Buddhist I seek to remind them.....they should think about the deeds they have committed or are going to commit, and repent what has been done, for there is truly karma. Because once the karmic 'ball' starts rolling from the action....there's no going back....

What I feel is more important right now for the people of the US, and the people of the world, is the strength of will, and the strength of spirit within people. Despite a gloomy economy, we must have a fighting spirit, that will say, whatever comes, we will get past it, no matter what happens. I think this is far more important.