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Life on a geopolitical fault line
Hong Kong can do nothing right, it seems. But it’s not the community’s fault: it lives on a fault line, trying to balance between two much larger, more powerful entities. Richard Cullen recalls a different occasion when two big powers, the US and the UK, had a difference of opinion. Often, much smaller communities end…
Harvard China academic takes on the Economist
The Economist magazine recently pushed dramatic statistical claims about the USA’s apparently world-beating economic growth. These figures raised the eyebrows of a prominent Harvard professor who responded that the numbers worked just fine - but only if China was omitted! The publication responded to his impudence by going on an energetic attack with a cover…
The West is just taking whatever it wants: that will blow back
Financiers are expressing growing concern about the under-reported western assault on international property rights The neutrality of the world's reserve currency has been sacrificed for political ends, but where's the outrage? Or even discussion? Jim Rogers and others are warning of serious long-term negative consequences, saying the US dollar will ultimately die THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING…