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    "The China Price" - The best business article I have seen in years.

    but the price setting insight is interesting and worth investigating
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    "The China Price" - The best business article I have seen in years.

    yes, european companies have huge incentives to outsource. Simply because you can switch ur outsourcing provider easily, but it is difficult to fire employees. So companies outsource to get flexibility. In some way, labour laws are good for the economy. They provide strong incentives to...
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    "The China Price" - The best business article I have seen in years.

    In my view, ur article is poor because it does not explain anything about how. It is propaganda, it is judging without explaning. A good analysis is explaining without judging.
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    if china floats the yuan

    due to rapidity of technological evolution, biology evolutionnary has become irrelevant. we will be to integrate technology in brains far quicker than any biology selection will lead to higher intelligence.
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    if china floats the yuan

    I don't see any issue for china to float its currency. Looking just on trade figures, japan has trade imbalance far greater than china. the yuan has no reason to skyrocket like people thinks as long as china trade is balanced with the world. As long as it keeps buying lots of stuff to finance...
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    if china floats the yuan

    well, we 'll see!
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    if china floats the yuan

    Because japonese tabloid are always questioning whether japonese were bad during war leading common japonese to be unsure about what has been done. Because japonese primer minister is going to honore japan war criminal every year. For many years chinese official have refused to meet japonese...
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    if china floats the yuan

    currency crisis leads to strong imported inflation like in Mexico 94. but i don't see the crisis yet. the problem will come when countries realise they don't need to hold large amount of dollars anymore. They will need yuan to buy chinese goods so many countries will start to make reserve in...
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    if china floats the yuan

    No because china is not having any major trade surplus with the rest of the world. consequently freely trade yuan will not change its value compared to dollars by much. the problem is USA trade deficit is the inability for the US to sell anything to the rest of the world. not the problem of...
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    if china floats the yuan

    well just look at how european stock have been diverging from US stock over the last few months to see what is happening in the market!
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    if china floats the yuan

    Interesting idea in itself, do you have any link or source validating this approach? Intuitivelly, war are decided by leaders not people? I would have thought that men will have to work harder to get social status in order to get a wife. This should lead to a very capitalist society where...
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    How low will the greenback go?

    seems obvious to me. In case of dollars strong sell off by asian, the euro could go to 1.5/1.7 but it will come back at 1.3 because european economy cannot afford so strong currency. Its long term value compared is around $1.2 per euro. This figure is based on purchasing power parity...
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    UK economic calendar

    ????? Jean Monnet was undoubtedly one of the main founders of the European Union. By tracing Monnet’s life, students are exposed to the main events of European history, from the First World War to the birth and first enlargement of the EU. Jean Monnet, who fought for a closer alliance...
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    UK economic calendar

    [/B] Isn't anglosaxons germans descendants? after the breakup of the roman empire, celts were living across france, britain and ireland and were invaded by germans. The germans who settle in france were called the franks and germans who settle in germany were called the saxons.
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    Goldman Sachs predicts $105 crude

    Yep, the high oil prices have just started to spread across the economy. These markets are global. ******************** Beijing : 01-03-2005 The largest steel maker in China, Baosteel, agreed with two of the world's major iron ore providers on price hikes for 2005, the company said Monday...
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