Debt

How deluded have we become as a country to think that we have the power to tell other nations what to do? We cannot even run our own country properly.

The surge yesterday was enough to push the Dow Jones Industrial Average above the 10,000-point threshold at the closing bell, but the outlook for today does not seem to have such great gains in store. After struggling a bit at the opening bell stocks have forged ahead on Wall Street.

Though markets did finish in the red yesterday that slump is no comparison to the enormous drop at the open Tuesday. Within one hour American markets were down roughly 2 percent, pushing the Dow Jones below 10,000 points once again.

IOUSA, a film produced by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, shows the risk the U.S. faces by borrowing trillions of dollars from China through the sale of U.S. debt.