Let’s not forget the most important people in this story:
100 million manufacturing workers from the People’s Republic of China – for working 14 hours a day for a pittance making iPods and poisoned toys for Americans
Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and the rest of Chinese government – for buying all dollars Americans spent on iPods and poisoned toys and lending them back to Americans in ever-increasing quantities from 2000 onwards, thus depressing mortgage rates to under 5%.