It is kinda weird though - if an alien race basically arrived with trillions of gold bricks and started buying US properties (and obviously not showing how many

It is kinda weird though - if an alien race basically arrived with trillions of gold bricks and started buying US properties (and obviously not showing how many gold bricks they had or that they were aliens) there would be an effective take-over of the country. There would be absolutely "rich" people with gold bricks in their trunks driving around realizing they can't actually buy other homes. edit - I'm talking about space aliens because hey ;)