But what if you're America and you invent the light bulb and then you invent the transistor and then you invent the GPU and you're just too darn smart. So what they do with those dollars is they come in and buy us. In 1985, we had net ownership of the rest of the world. We were net an investor of $148 billion. the world's ownership of America and our ownership of them, that counts everything. Their bonds, companies, stocks, everything, everything. We were net an investor of $148 billion. (15:37–15:58)
CLAIM
Asserts that in 1985, the U.S. had a net ownership of $148 billion more of the world than vice versa.
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