Yesterday, I tried to sum up the feelings of the Chinese at the way America is treating them:

Fuck you America. Our economy is based on innovation, hard work, sweat and tears. Your economy is based on printing toilet paper money and Treasury Bonds, and shipping rolls and rolls over here to exchange for our hard work and effort. You export consumerism, fraudulent derivatives, threats, Hollywood trash, pornography, superficial culture, weapons and chicken feet. We export to you most of the goods on sale in your biggest stores like Target and Wal Mart. We don’t want your stupid paper anymore, because all you do is devalue it by printing more and more. We are the productive engine of the world. You want to take advantage of us forever? Fine. See how you do when we don’t co-operate.

But as it turns out, New Order did it better over 20 years ago:

How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you’ve laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are

I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how do I feel

Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They will turn away no more

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me
Just how I should feel today

The real question — as markets in Europe and Asia droop, and gold soars over $1700 an ounce — is just how blue a monday today will be in America?