Capital Injections Unspun

``Folks, these are not capital injections, they’re capital withdrawals. Cash is not capital, it’s a medium of exchange. It is being used here to buy capital. OPEC and BRIC now own part of these firms that they did not own before. Americans now do not own part of these firms that they did before. Capital is passing from American hands to OPEC and BRIC. Not the other way around. Never mind the fact that in many instances these are agencies of sovereign governments acquiring ownership of this capital and that we used to call that communism, but nevertheless any euphemism that spins it as though capital were coming in to America would be enough to make George Orwell blush.''