What are you thinking and hearing in your country about the U.S. financial model? How do you respond to this Wall Street Journal story http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122999122677028455.html about the United States and China?

And how about some stories from the months and weeks before the U.S. presidential election? What were your friends and colleagues saying about the choice U.S. citizens faced, and what it would mean for the world and the United States?

I, for example, was amazed to hear of Republicans who planned to vote for Obama, including a very conservative, and elderly Republican in Michigan. A Republican colleague in Texas told me that he'd told a neighbor, "I'm not just going to vote for him, I'm going to put up a sign on my lawn! I've had enough of these clowns."