If the best you have is thin threats that ill loose money buying good companies regardless of their nationality then I will feel safe in my trading strategies. Nowhere in my post did I ever get all nationalistic, and I have no real idea why you think that. I have plenty of money in overseas stocks, and continue to invest in them. I have plenty of money in American compnaies too, and continue to invest in them too. I like good companies no matter what their nationality and am fully willing to admit, to the contrast of some here, that there are still good companies in the USA. Just because we are not the only game in town doesnt mean that we have no game left if you get my drift.