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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The economist has an excellent article this week that touches on the myriad problems in the Chinese financial sector:
Hank Paulson, America's treasury secretary, was not just talking America's book when he said that opening the Chinese financial system is “absolutely necessary” for China's own long-term economic success. It would not ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
A new business website that I ran across while searching "Chinese inflation" on google news, has quite an odd sense of what quote accreditation:
"What's killing me is the underlying costs," the billionaire entrepreneur insisted.
Oddly what's killing me, is not being a billionaire.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Democrats have gotten on the China bashing wagon... and since this is a big issue for me, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to need to start supporting the Iraq war (i.e. vote for McCain).
Obama told workers in Pennsylvania on Monday that China had to respect trade rules ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I was playing with a title for my Abacus article for next month, and remembering Bob Dylan's statement that he tries to have a song for every occasion thought to name it "High Water Rising." I picked the song out on my iPod and discovered.
"High water rising, rising night and ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The site is in Chinese, but here is the Wikipedia entry about it:
[On April 1, 2008], Google launches Manpower Search (谷歌人肉搜索) in China (google.cn). This new feature is powered by 25 million volunteers who do the searching around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers will search any ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The RMB is tottering on the edge of 7 to the dollar, and it seems to be getting people fairly excited. While I don't exactly know how forex markets work to everyday tourist, my parents are being quoted rates of 6 to the dollar for their upcoming trip to China. ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I occasionally thank the lord that I'm not really competing with Chinese people for work
Tian Chengping, Minister of Labor and Social Security, said on March 9 that there are 24 million job-seekers in cities and towns every year, including the new additional urban workforce and the people carried over from ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Shanghai Composite Index: 3830 (against a high of 6,124)
Blackstone: 15.78 (against an IPO of 31)
The CEO of Blackstone received $350 million in compensation in 2007, because he is a hero of the new economy.
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Xinjiekou is all good, everyone thought I was crazy when I asked whether there was increased problems with the Olympics coming up. Though there did seem to be less DVD's than before.BG SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "DVD's went somewhere update", url: "http://www.cibmagazine.com.cn/theyuanalsorises/index.php/2008/03/15/dvds-went-somewhere-update/" });
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
We are officially in the middle of a DVD crackdown. I've talked to 2 DVD shop owners, one has all their DVD's behind a secret door, they said because the police now come by every 1 or 2 months. Another shop which now keeps its DVDs in a secret closet ...
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