{"id":1082,"date":"2011-08-19T19:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:20:24","slug":"he-who-owns-the-bank-owns-the-guns-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/19\/he-who-owns-the-bank-owns-the-guns-too\/","title":{"rendered":"he who owns the bank owns the guns too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1083\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-56.png 750w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-56-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s Friday again, going to chill a bit tonight with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc with my new best friends Mulder and Scully to talk about some foreign invasion sh*#. Speaking about alien sovereignty, on the radio today a guy compared the US now to the UK in 1956, when it was no longer the financial superpower of the world, and was forced by the new-rich-kid-on-the-block US of A to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suez_Crisis#Financial_pressure\">cease the attacks on Egypt<\/a>. With China now owning ~3 trillion of our debts I wonder what would happen if suddenly China attacks Taiwan and uses its financial powers as leverage? Hmmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Have we really lost our status as the #1 Economic Superpower of the World?<br>2) Once China doesn&#8217;t need us as the #1 importer of their goods, would it flex its economic muscles on us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too complex scenario for me to contemplate on a Friday afternoon. Gonna go pour my glass of wine now. Have a happy weekend everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture of San Diego Padre&#8217;s Petco Stadium taken from my hotel room this past week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again, going to chill a bit tonight with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc with my new best friends Mulder and Scully to talk about some foreign invasion sh*#. Speaking about alien sovereignty, on the radio today a guy compared the US now to the UK in 1956, when it was no longer the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-56.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}