Quote from mokwit:
The assets will go down in the elevator that night and not go up in the elevator the next morning if the Chinese have any say in running, let alone actually managing MS.
Quote from pitz:
What's wrong with the Chinese buying and running a US investment bank?
American firms send their own people to China to run subsidiaries. The Chinese have every right to do the same.
Remember, it was American-style 'thinking' that got the banking industry into the trouble it is in today, while the Chinese were out there building a sustainable economy and bringing their people out of poverty.
Its widely acepted that people in debt lose control over their destiny. I think you could apply the same logic to an entire country. The future of America belongs to China, and its going to be a difficult time for people who do not embrace Chinese ideas such as hard work and sound money.
Quote from mokwit:
If you had ever worked for Chinese you would not be asking. What I am saying is that MS rainmakers are not going to answer to people who have to know about and control the minutia of everything. They are going to walk.
As for the Chinese miracle I suggest you look at a chart of US housing stocks and the Shanghai index and ask yourself why they are tracking. Hint, no one in China believes in decoupling or growth from domestic expansion is going to replace Joe Sixpack taking out the equity in "his" house and blowing it on crap made in China. Their claim to fame as to be the current cheapest labour. Thailand was a miracle economy when it was them - they too were going to take over the world.