Inflation

China: Economy


China and the world economy ; China, energy & economy ; China on Wednesday-Night.com
China complains to WTO over rules that overwhelmingly benefit China
Experts believe that China is leveraging economic discrepancies against the U.S. and other countries by maintaining an artificially low value for its currency and fighting protectionist tariffs by its […]

The Economy - What went wrong & What’s next?


See also Wednesday Nights 1375 ; 1376 and 1378
Old-School Banks Emerge Atop New World of Finance
by Carrick Mollenkamp and Mark Whitehouse
(WSJ) More than 200 years after it was born at the base of a buttonwood tree, Wall Street as we have known it is ceasing to exist.
The rapid demise of 158-year-old investment […]

Wednesday Night #1375 - The Report


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It was a brilliant evening in every respect - and there was not even mention of the G8 meeting. There is no way that a summary can reproduce the articulation and clarity of analysis of the two distinguished guests, nor the many excellent interventions from the other informed and focused participants. […]

Wednesday Night #1369


An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. Heward.
Geoff began his investment career over 25 years ago working in London England as an Equity Dealer on the London Stock Exchange for Cazenove and Co, returning to Canada with Merrill Lynch […]

World Economy


See also:
WHAT WENT WRONG - The Economy ; What’s next? ; and related posts on The Economy; Global Monitoring Report and World Hunger

US blights Asia outlook
Emerging Markets - 5th May 2008
By Steve Garton
The credit crunch has not yet played itself out, and Asian economies are not immune from the effects of falling export […]

Wednesday Night #1362


This Wednesday, it is a somewhat random-access agenda. Despite (or perhaps because of) our careful monitoring of topics of interest, we find that many are in the category of “been there, done that” too recently and there is little obvious progress in the files. However, there are others that have been somewhat neglected in […]

Asian Inflation


April 8 2008
Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers
By KEITH BRADSHER
(NYT) BAT TRANG, Vietnam — For two generations, Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from a succession of low-wage countries — first Japan and Korea, then China, and now increasingly places like Vietnam and India.
But mounting inflation in the developing world, especially […]

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