And this week George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, met successful businessmen of Hellenic origin from five countries (such as Andrew Liveris, chief executive of America's Dow Chemical company), in the hope that they could lend their struggling homeland some badly needed pizzazz.
Either it slows, or in some cases--depending on economic situations in their countriesof origin--immigrants in the U.S. may return to their home countries.
Some exporters, such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics, are so international that their valuations should anyway bear little relation to their countriesoforigin.