{"id":2103,"date":"2006-01-15T22:47:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2006-01-15T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T22:47:56","slug":"thinking_differ_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Different &#8211; US Foreign Investment More Productive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2006\/01\/is_american_fdi.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Dan Drezner writes:<\/p>\n<p>Given the fact that foreigners currently have a net claim on $2.5 trillion in U.S. assets, one would expect the U.S. to be paying out a lot more in interest, dividends, and profits to foreigners than Americans would receive from their investments.<\/p>\n<p>The weird thing is that, so far, this hasn&#8217;t been true. Last year the U.S. earned $36 billion more on their foreign investments than foreigners earned in the United States. The question is, why?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Americans both (seem to) make riskier investments and earn a higher return on investment.  One extreme view (not Dan&#8217;s) suggests the following:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen: Dan Drezner writes: Given the fact that foreigners currently have a net claim on $2.5 trillion in U.S. assets, one would expect the U.S. to be paying out a lot more in interest, dividends, and profits to foreigners than Americans would receive from their investments. The weird thing is that, so far, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}