GTim on Michael Masters Testimony on Derivatives/Commodities Markets
Bob P on Governments do not always feel able to tell people the whole truth
Kim Appapillai on Michael Masters Testimony on Derivatives/Commodities Markets
Mitch on Richard Bove : Driving the Financial System to Collapse???
mano on Senate Bill Would Regulate OTC Derivatives and Credit Default SwapsA global market perspective that I agree with . . .
November 23, 2009
The Future That Was
China’s economic model is reminiscent of 17thcentury mercantilist policies. Thomas Mun, a Director of the East India Company, in England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664), wrote that the purpose of trade was to export more than you imported. At the same [...]
Tags: China·Satyajit Das
Double-click on chart to get a better picture.
The USA owes China $740B and the USA continues to beg China ad Japan buy more bonds in the next several years while we spend like a profligate drunkard.
Like Chavez (cash has run out), who is telling creditors that he will give them useless paper (like we do bonds) or turn on the printing presses [...]
Tags: Andrew A·China·Geopolitics·internantional·Treasury
Excellent review : economics, marketing, politics
Seven Reasons Why the Coke-Huiyuan Deal Failed
March 19, 2009
David Wolf
Just after the Ministry of Commerce announced that it had rejected Coca-Cola’s (KO) bid for Chinese juice-maker Huiyuan, I got a message from a very astute friend of mine who noted “that deal was dead the minute it made the headlines [...]
China and Japan continue to be the largest investors in US assets.
US treasury bonds ’still the best option’
By Xin Zhiming (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-20 09:46
China is likely to continue increasing holdings of US treasury bonds even after becoming the No 1 holder because it is the best way to deploy its $1.9 trillion foreign exchange reserves, [...]