when consumption returns in the US. There's no reason to believe that they won't maintain the balance of consumption for ever how long it takes.

If there is one reason consumption in China may surpass the consumption that was lost by the recession is that China was already a poor begger country and now with the lost export jobs, that force to push for reform and more consumer loans and welfare in China may have grown stronger, especially with the college graduates also entering the job field. So it's that force that may have pushed officials to implement these growth programs in China and it may push them to implement more growth than was taken away from the rest of the world due to the recession. So in that(hmmm - how much is he invested in gold anyway??)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2010 – U.S. farmers produced the largest corn and soybean crops on record in 2009, according to the Crop Production 2009 Summary released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

Corn production is 13.2 billion bushels, 1 percent above the previous record of 13 billion bushels set in 2007, and 9 percent higher than 2008. Corn yields reached an all-time high in 2009 at 165.2 bushels per acre, eclipsing the previous record of 160.3 bushels per acre set in 2004. Planted area, at 86.5 million acres, is the second highest since 1949, behind 2007’s 93.5 million acres.

The 2009 soybean crop broke records for planted and harvested area as well as for yield