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    A good summary of present macro situation

    Rebalancing act This process was enabled by two related factors. First, the massive recycling of the US trade deficit into the US securities markets set the stage for the surge in real estate and stock market prices which, by raising the market value of accumulated US savings...
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    A good summary of present macro situation

    http://www.rgemonitor.com/emergingmarkets-monitor/254562/can_china_adjust_to_the_us_adjustment For the past ten years the global balance of payments has been dominated by the trade and investment relationship between China and the US. This relationship is now undergoing a major shift. Most...
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    Half of China's toy exporters out of business

    Half!? http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-10/14/content_7104848.htm
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    WHOA!!! China... With $586B to spend?

    Out of the 4 trillion RMB, around 1 trillion is for Sichuan reconstruction (after the earthquake). In China, many bldg and infrastructures hv inferior quality. That is why so many bldg (esp schools) collapsed. 4T is not even enough to rebuild all these inferior structures in entire China.
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    Is Java 1.6.0.10 stable?

    I hv installed 1.6.0.10-RC2 and it is good. The final version is released. Has anyone tried it? Is it stable and fast?
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    Portable solution for IB's TWS

    I am using my HTC with this program. It can send not just the screen but also the audio alert frm my esignal. http://www.z2software.com/index.html In case you don't like Pocket PC you may consider below notebooks/UMPC: - SONY UX, OQO e2, FUJITSU U2010 => small but not so powerful CPU -...
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    Can anyone here read Chinese?

    1) They are Chinese characters (traditional Chinese which is used by ppl in Hongkong and Taiwan, not simplified Chinese used by those in mainland China) 2) These characters are meaningless. They can't make up a sentence. So you may call them monster characters but somehow encoded and...
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    broker for hong kong trading

    Take a look at these two: www.taifook.com www.shkonline.com Or better still, set up a bank account and trading account in HK. HSBC would be fine. Commission may be higher but you will be able to sleep well at night.
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    Suggestions frm Nouriel Roubini

    http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/253933/revisiting_my_february_paper_the_risk_of_a_systemic_financial_meltdown_the_12_steps_to_financial_disasterand_some_new_policy_recommendations_to_avoid_the_meltdown ...Policy rate cuts will have limited effects as they don¡¦t resolve the...
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    Roubini: "The Mother of All Bank Runs is Underway"

    Read this everyday... http://www.rgemonitor.com/
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    dividend tax does NOT amount to double taxation

    Here you can find more articles on things like debit breakdown, quality of education, tax, deficit, etc. http://mwhodges.home.att.net/
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    dividend tax does NOT amount to double taxation

    According to this article, private sector's share of the economy has droped frm 88% to 57% now due to government spending growth. Check the content under "#1 Core Problem: INCREASED GOVERNMENT-DOMINANCE OF OUR ECONOMY" http://mwhodges.home.att.net/summary.htm
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    dividend tax does NOT amount to double taxation

    What is your view on this??? http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=09&year=2008&base_name=greg_mankiw_promotes_the_myth Greg Mankiw Promotes the Myth of Double Taxation There is an old myth developed by rich people at some point in the distant past that paying...
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    Statutory and effective corporate tax rates across countries

    China is no2 and US is no3. http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2008/08/statutory-and-effective-corporate-tax-rates-across-countries.html
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    here is why India can't catch up China... and why China can't catch up US

    This article shows the breakdown of growth of China/India into physical capital, employment and productivity http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bbe1d5c-d711-11db-b9d7-000b5df10621.html Paul Krugman has popularized a paper by Young before that the Asian economic miracle is NOT a miracle at all as...
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    here is why India can't catch up China... and why China can't catch up US

    Check out the charts for the productivity (and its trend) of different countries. http://blog.sina.com.tw/kjscu/article.php?pbgid=10843&entryid=101224
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    here is why India can't catch up China... and why China can't catch up US

    http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0506g.asp What makes nations wealthy? One of the most basic lessons of economics is that people must produce in order to consume. With that truth as a starting point, Lewis proceeded to ask what some countries are doing right and others are doing wrong. Paying...
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    here is why India can't catch up China... and why China can't catch up US

    Even though I would like to see this happen as a native Chinese but I really don't think so. What really counts is productivity... The book "The Power of Productivity" describes the case well. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Productivity-Wealth-Poverty-Stability/dp/0226476766...
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    The failure of history's most celebrated bilateral trade agreement

    The history of spaghetti http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1563 As WTO negotiations have failed, pragmatists have embraced preferential trade agreements. This column presents new evidence on the Anglo-French treaty of 1860 and argues that, contrary to all conventional wisdom, history's...
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    Lou Dobbs on "Population Explosion" in the United States.

    I do agree that demography is an EXTREMELY important factor. It affects everything from economy to crime rate. And it is not just about the population structure but also how the culture affects how everyone is given opportunity and rewarded. I hv just post a post on this...
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