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by Greg Cruey on March 14, 2010
2point6billion (a blog on economic issue in India and China) had an interesting blog post not long ago on China's "hidden" borrowing.
Officially, China has a public debt hovering a...
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by Greg Cruey on February 12, 2010
I've seen a number of stories recently about the U.S. relationship with China, and how it seems to be headed downhill. It's hard to image that such a decline won't have business implica...
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by Greg Cruey on January 23, 2010
Chna made economic news this past week by announcing that its gross domestic product grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter of 2009, and that as far as China was concerned the recession was now over. The...
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by Greg Cruey on December 31, 2009
A Bloomberg piece is projecting that China's trade surplus will drop by almost 20% in 2010.
China's trade surplus in 2008 was about $200 billion. Lu Ting, a Hong Kong-based economist for...
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by Greg Cruey on December 26, 2009
India is not catching up with China. At least if you mean that soon the Indian economy and the Chinese economy will be level with each other, then it isn't.
If you think you heard me say someth...
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by Greg Cruey on October 29, 2009
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Forbes ran an interesting piece on China this week. It looked at three myths that are widely believed to be true, but are, well, not quite as simple as people (and the media) tend t...
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by Greg Cruey on October 14, 2009
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China has a entrepreneur confidence index - a scale of 0 to 200. And for the third quater of the year it's up almost 10 points, to 120.1 according to China CSR.The index, which m...
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by Greg Cruey on September 27, 2009
For the first time, China is sending more investment out of the country to the rest of the world than it is taking in from foreign investors, according to Seeking Alpha.According to Peoples' Daily...
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by Greg Cruey on September 13, 2009
Andrew Butter took a look recently at US ownership in China's export sector and concluded that blaming China for the trade deficit or for the value of the US dollar against the yuan is, well, circ...
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by Greg Cruey on August 31, 2009
INn light of what I said yesterday about consumptionin China, I thought I would revisit another Seeling Alpha post from earlier this month - this one by David Hunkar.
So, if China's not a comsum...
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by Greg Cruey on August 30, 2009
Paul Kedrosky over at Seeking Alpha last week pointed out one of the primary obstacles China faces if it is to continue its transition to a Western-style consumer-oriented economy. China has a consump...
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by Greg Cruey on August 12, 2009
Renewable energy has become even more of an economic and policy focus for China according to VentureBeat.
VentureBeat says that China now has a goal of producing 15 percent of its energy from renewa...
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by Greg Cruey on August 7, 2009
Is China leading a global recovery. BusinessWeek says that many international corporations seem to think so.That theme keeps cropping up in recent conversations with CEOs and financial executives. Amo...
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by Greg Cruey on July 22, 2009
Cars are giving a boost to the Chnese economy. Is that good? Opinions vary...
While U.S. car sales are down so much that GM and Chrysler have both been through Chapter 11, China's car sales for J...
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by Greg Cruey on July 16, 2009
BusinessWeek ran a piece earlier this month in which Guangzhou Party Secretary Zhu Xiaodan is quoted on the city's plans to clean up the Pearl River, restore wetlands and forests, and foster home-...
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by Greg Cruey on January 19, 2009
Asiajin had an interesting story a couple of weeks ago about the online mall that 100 Japanese companies are setting up for shoppers in China.According to the Nikkei, major electronics retailer Yodoba...
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by Greg Cruey on November 18, 2008
The China Law Blog pointed this out to me.
Mastercard has come out with its list of the key cities "driving growth in emerging markets worldwide." Of the 65 cities that made the list, 15 a...
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by Greg Cruey on November 11, 2008
The $586 billion stimulus package Beijing announced Sunday was a flop with the markets, at least. Seeking Alpha estimates that the effect of the stimulus package on the stock markets in China "la...
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by Greg Cruey on November 9, 2008
A number of news sources (International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, the WSJ) are reporting that China has unveiled $586 billion stimulus package that it hopes will bolster domestic demand and help aver...
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by Greg Cruey on November 7, 2008
"The basic framework of U.S. policy under an Obama administration will not fundamentally change," said Cui Liru, president of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, in ...
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by Greg Cruey on October 30, 2008
A recent report by Asia Pacific News says that at least 2.7 million factory workers in southern China could lose their jobs as the global economic crisis hits demand for electronics, toys and clothes....
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by Greg Cruey on October 18, 2008
National Public Radio ran an interesting story this week on how the global economic slowdown is affecting China.
In the words of NPR reporter Louisa Lim:The export sector - which has driven 30 years...
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by Greg Cruey on October 4, 2008
Hats off to Richard Brubaker over at his blog, All Roads Lead to China, for pointing out this Financial Times article. If you enjoy understanding the big picture, the piece is insightful...
The autho...
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by Greg Cruey on October 3, 2008
Money Morning's Jason Simpkins had a heartening article late last month - heartening, at least, if you're still investing in China...
The article is a detailed look at the condition of China...
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by Greg Cruey on September 30, 2008
A blog called Geostrategy brought this piece from the Australian's Sunday Business section to my attention. Their point is well taken: the world is paying attention to she how China handles the mi...
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by Greg Cruey on September 30, 2008
BusinessWeek ran an interesting piece last week on the question of what happens to the U.S-China commercial relationship if Barack Obama wins the White House.
What does happen? The answer seems to b...
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by Greg Cruey on September 28, 2008
Well, I've tried to ignore this story, but I suppose the time has come to comment on it...
WaPo had a story in their Sunday paper. In China you can take your child to the hospital and have its ki...
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by Greg Cruey on September 18, 2008
What is the difference between a chinese bank and an American bank? A Chinese bank has money...
Okay, I stole that joke from Richard Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China. He goes on to point out ...
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by Greg Cruey on September 17, 2008
CNN Money ran a piece yesterday on the chaos that the collapse of Lehman Brothers brought to Hong Kong...Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) suspended trading, investment banking and brokerage operati...
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by Greg Cruey on September 17, 2008
Forex Factory made an interesting point yesterday about the up side of China stock crash: it has led to a stronger bond market in China.
Since it reached wild peaks in October of last year, the Shang...
