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Autre tendance abordée à l'occasion du salon : celle du cloud computing, qui peut se définir comme une virtualisation de bout en bout de l'infrastructure informatique. La conséquence technique de ce nouvel usage, c'est l’agrandissement démesuré des centres de données hébergeant les données des particuliers et des entreprises. C’est une des raisons pour lesquelles les développements et les ventes de serveurs connaissent une telle croissance aux Etats-Unis. A noter que l’énergie consommée par la totalité des "data centers" aux Etats-Unis équivaut a la consommation électrique de l’Etat de l'Utah. Deux compagnies y sont pour beaucoup : Elastra et Citrix.

France, which has clashed with the United States in a separate dispute between Airbus and Boeing over aircraft subsidies, gave an officially muted response, with the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy declining to comment. But Bernard Carayon, a member of Sarkozy's ruling center-right UMP party said the decision sowed the seeds of a potential clash with the United States, which he said was practicing economic nationalism. "The challenge to the air-refueling contract by the U.S. Government Accountability Office is a blow to our transatlantic relations," he said in a statement.

Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Göring: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Le capital financier représente à présent quinze fois le produit intérieur brut (PIB) de tous les pays. La dette cumulée des ménages, des entreprises financières et non financières et des autorités publiques américaines représente plus de trois fois le PIB des Etats-Unis, soit deux fois le niveau enregistré lors du krach boursier de 1929.

In the past, US deficits have been manageable because allies have been willing to pay a financial price to support American global leadership; they correctly have seen it to be in their interests. In the 1960s, Germany was willing to offset the expenses of stationing US troops on bases there so as to save the United States from a balance of payments deficit. The American military has long been charged less to station troops in high-rent Japan than if they had been based at home.

Repeatedly the Bank of Japan, among other central banks, has been willing to buy dollars to prevent the US currency from depreciating (late 1960s, early 1970s, late 1980s).

In 1991, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and a number of other countries were willing to pay for the financial cost of the war against Iraq, thus briefly wiping out the US current account deficit.