You could have easily missed it. If it weren't for the credit crunch and Bear Stearns going under and all the US election hooplah in the news and the screech of the wheels on the US economy...
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I saw two interesting pieces last week on the rise of the yuan. One said that the appreciation of the Chinese currency was hurting small businesses in China and increasing the mortality rate among...
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What if oil was priced for sale in euros instead of US dollars? Would the world (or America) be a different place? I saw an excerpt of a very interesting interview in the German magazine Der Spiegel...
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After several years of resisting outside demands to allow the yuan renminbi to appreciate in value against other currencies (especially the U.S. dollar), it looks as if China has decided to allow just...
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If the euro is worth too much in China or the yuan is worth too little in France and Germany, that's America's fault. That was the basic message Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gave to European...
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I am not an economist. I heard some sound bites recently from the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, that make it sound like being an economist is not that big a deal anyway. So maybe...
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I read a blog by Richard Brubaker, Founder and Managing Director of China Strategic Development Partners. Rich's company is based in Shanghai, and in a recent blog he talked about the falling...
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The past week has been an interesting time in the ongoing debate about the value of China's currency, the Yuan Renminbi. The debate is growing more shrill. With the increase of emotions, logic and...
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U.S. Senate hearings that could raise the tax rate on some private equity and venture capital fund profits were overshadowed today when the Senate Banking Committee approved a measure that would put...
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Foreign policy expert and Harvard PhD Thomas Barnett pointed to the "slew of articles declaiming the 'damage' of China's pegged yuan" in his blog yesterday. Is protectionism just...
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Somewhere in your home you have something that was made in China. Maybe it's your television. Maybe it's your dinnerware or your coffee maker. Maybe it's a part on the car in your garage....
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