The Long Shadow Of The Long March
Although Mao and Marx have been replaced in many ways by modernization, the great helmsman is still at the center of China. Read Here – The Euroepan
Tag: Recreation
How Much Longer Before The Fed Cracks?
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7 percent in November, the lowest since November 2008, raising questions about how much longer the Fed will keep fueling the economy with monetary stimulus. Read Here – Businessweek Let It Ride – The Economist
The Problematic Continent
Among all continents, Asia has the ability to disrupt the world the most. Read Here – The Atlantic
China’s Hidden Unemployment Crisis
The reality is China’s official urban unemployment rate has long been a near-worthless measure. Even during the global financial crisis in 2009, when tens of millions of workers in China’s export factories lost their jobs, the official rate barely stirred, and it has been moving between just under 4 percent and 4.3 percent for most […]
China’s Slowdown Skins Gold And Oil
The wreckage caused by China’s great, juddering slowdown continues to spread far beyond the country’s shores. Although most commodities enjoyed a bounce on May 3, after better-than-expected U.S. employment data, the plunge in their prices over the past few months suggests the past decade’s rally is truly broken, Ruchir Sharma argues Read Here – Bloomberg
America And The Lack Of A Grand Strataegy
In light of today’s enormous domestic and international challenges, the United States today needs, more than ever, an effective grand strategy. Without one, the nation is in a dangerous state of drift. Read Here – The Diplomat
Coming: Lax Americana
Historian Arnold Toynbee likened America to a ”large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over something.” More recent chroniclers have not been as charitable. They ascribe to the United States less innocence, and credit it with a more predatory outlook in its pursuit of global domination […]
Food Diplomacy – Cheeseburger Pizzas, Designer French Fries and a Post-war Cinnabon: Fast Food’s Booming Middle East Market
What few Americans knew is that the Arab World‘s love for Western-branded fast food is seemingly bottomless, to the extent that in the region’s wealthiest oil exporting countries, high-end fast food restaurants offering $US40 hamburgers and French fries can find a willing clientele. Even ubiquitous brands such as McDonald’s and Burger King can sell their […]
Falling Prices Of Companies In The West Due To Weak Economic Outlook Is Prompting Chinese Companies To Spread Their Acquisition Spree. Cause For Fear?
A PwC report said that Chinese investors continue the momentum of M&A activity across the world in 2012. In the first half, the volume of announced investments in company shares and acquisitions added up to $23.9 billion, trebling the number in the same period last year. The largest transaction was the purchase of the American theater […]
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