To those worrying about "foreigners buying America", consider "Japan buying America" in 1980s (tl;dr: "bust"): http://www.businessinsider.com/japans-eighties-america-buying-spree-2013-1 …
@vgr If 'wealthy furriners' are literally buying out the country, liberal intuition should be horrified as they can influence regulation
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@i_contemplate_ Only if the foreigners are fundamentally more objectionable than wall street cronies. -
@vgr Yes but liberal intuition dictates that Govt is a 'countervailing force,' by definition less able to coerce foreigners into compliance. -
@i_contemplate_ With real estate, they are actually more able. Illegal search and seizure is easy to do with foreigner scaremongering. -
@vgr Good point.
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@i_contemplate_ Individuals sneaking money out of failing regimes is actually pretty safe money to take.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@i_contemplate_ What is potentially dangerous to pluralism is state-sponsored buying of strategic assets from ideologically opposed regimes -
@vgr I suspect that's rare, though with Russia, and Mid-East it may not be. -
@i_contemplate_ I'd definitely be concerned if Chinese state-owned corps bought up a major port for instance.
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