Foreign Investment in US
Discussions debate the implications of US trade deficits leading to foreign capital inflows into American assets like stocks, bonds, factories, and startups, questioning if this is beneficial compared to domestic investment or repatriating overseas profits.
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Sure, but that's US money propping up US companies, what's wrong with that?
Some shareholders in public companies are guaranteed to be outside the US. Similarly wealthy people are more likely to spend money on goods and services outside the US.
These foreign investments are mostly not currency. When a foreign country makes a lot of investments in the US, they could be buying stocks, bonds, or making direct investments - such as building US factories, as many foreign auto makers have done. Or buying entire companies - one of the big three US auto makers (Stellantis) is now foreign-owned.Stable countries that have a lot of attractive investments will tend to have a large trade deficit, and the US is one of the more profitable places t
What about the hoards of riches who invest in foreign countries?I mean, they made their money in the US, not just do they use the infrastructure, but also take money from American people directly.Now they want to send the money out, and help other countries to start businesses and create jobs?! They might as well live in those 3rd world countries themselves, forever!
What's the benefit to Apple or anyone else if the money is here in the US?
Those dollars aren't necessarily used to purchase American goods but rather to acquire ownership stakes in American assets.
What is the mechanism by which it has kept money from being invested in the US?
Where's a better place for they to put their money/all those dollars coming in from exporting to the US?
I'd expect to see a lot of foreign investors pull their money out of the US and invest elsewhere.
Meh. Everywhere has foreign investment. The economic elite of the UK owns the US as well.