WASHINGTON: The economy is able to chug along despite record-high trade deficits because foreigners are still willing to invest in the United States.
How much longer they will keep pouring money into America is unclear, even to the government's foremost economists - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his chosen successor, Ben Bernanke.
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