Your Excel entry example makes perfect sense to me as an outsourcing option.I think we should outsource the time consuming intellectual / electronic / virtual work and free ourselves up to innovate, create, and do what we're good at or love to do.I think we should insource premier talent, R&D, manufacturing, farming.... things that require serious talent and/or serious shipping costs, or relate to national security and well-being (energy, farming)If we cultivate a reputation as a source of innovation, top-notch talent at top-notch salaries, and high quality manufactured products that we stand behind - I think the U.S. can remain strong into the forseeable future.If we continue to not look beyond the bottom line in business - we're doomed - we can't hope to compete with China, India, Brazil...

InflationWhen foreign countries realize that they cannot get rid of the dollars that the United States hands out for goods they stop shipping their manufactured goods to America.

We'll have manufacturing centers with 3d printers and such instead of mass manufacturing and shipping things around the world.

We weren't a couple years ago before the Fed starting holding rates at .25%, but now that that ship has sailed, I'm a lot less optimistic about the economy than I was a couple years ago (long-term, that is).My big concern is that neither cutting spending nor raising taxes alone is enough -- we need to do both, and we need to do both drastically.

My personal opinion is that the American people would give up every single right they have (including their property) and become virtual slaves to a socialist/communist/fascist government without any fight whatsoever (or has that ship already sailed).

:lol: Yeah, still working out a way to ship these houses to your neighborhood and put them on California lots.

Pausing on the banks of the river for the night, his troops awakened in the morning to find, to their horror, that their ships were burning.

Just like a rocket ship that goes up and up and up, it eventually comes back down to earth.Enjoyed your post and I hope many others read it.Have a great week and I will have happy travels.

My son and I are wanting to learn and gain experience as true real estate investors, and I don't think paying $20K-60K for advanced training and mentor-ship is the only way to be successful.  

-type places that collect their mail and ship to whatever address they choose once a month.