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The New Investment Rules For China

By on Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Following on the global credit crisis, many have come to me to ask how these changes will affect China. As I have said earlier, China and the US are two sides to the same coin, and it pays to look at them as one economy, as this Newsweek article does. It goes without saying that [...]

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Investing in American Science and Technology

By on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Comments Off

One of my recurring themes is that Americans have become too good at consuming, down to the point of consuming their children’s futures through deficit spending, and have not done enough to invest in the future. This is an important legacy of the current Bush administration which has repeatedly mortgaged the future in order to [...]

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Gold and the Currency Nobody Wants

By on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments

This morning I was watching a TV program on China’s CCTV-4 which talked about the history of gold, historically and in China. The program, all in Mandarin, had a fascinating format. It started off with history and the Bretton Woods agreement of 1945 and when the US controlled about 80% of the world’s gold reserves. [...]

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