> I was just interviewed by a radio
> station in Mexico City and right before they introduced me, the news
> reader said that Guillermo Ortiz (Mexico's central banker) had just
> declared that Mexico had resources to cushion the impact of a
> recession in the U.S. And that's Mexico! I think there's some
> bluffing there. I'd bet that you're mostly right about Mexico -- and
> perhaps most of Central America. But I don't think this is
> necessarily the case of the rest of South America. But we'll see
> soon.
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Ortiz was generously laying pipe for your interview! :)
I hope you're right. Previous depressions wreaked havoc on the capital-starved, wholly export-dependent colonial and semi-colonial nations. But the largest among them are now the ones with capital and they've been diversifying their economies and developing trade relationships with each other outside the US sphere. So maybe the foundations will, as you suggest, be solid enough to withstand an earthquake if it should come to that.