China and the Arabian Peninsula as Market Stabilizers

Austin, TX, Dec. 14, 2007 – Stratfor’s Geopolitical Intelligence Report this week discusses why there has not been a general financial crisis yet, as everyone has predicted. Given the broad belief that the subprime crisis is only the beginning, and that the U.S. economy will go into recession, we would have expected major market declines by now. When we add in surging oil and commodity prices, we would have expected all hell to break loose in these markets. But this has not happened. A critical explanation is the massive inflow of dollars to the United States from China and the Arabian Peninsula.

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