On the one hand, Americans are happy to receive imported riches from the whole world, while their factories close and their population is increasingly unemployed. And on the other hand, the Chinese amass incredible amounts of dollars while the people remain in poverty, because all those dollars represent goods which they have not received in payment – real payment – of their exports.
La tendencia irracional es, por un lado, que los americanos se regocijen con las riquezas importadas de todo el mundo, mientras cierran sus fábricas y su gente queda sin empleo; y por otro, que los chinos amasen reservas inauditas de dólares mientras su gente sigue en la pobreza, porque todas esas reservas representan bienes que no han recibido en pago de sus exportaciones.