Financial Vagabond

This video reminds me of one of my college classes relating to Asia.  We discussed how China was leading the way with its foreign direct investments, and creating capitalistic free zones.  Unfortunately, we are seeing how that played out, but it was a good run and if they can figure out their water and pollution [...]

Hold your hats folks as here are some of the forecasts for 2009 (link):

GDP falling by 2.2%
Slow recovery in 2010
> 9% unemployment by 2010
Decline in inflation (hmmmm… if monetary policy says anything this will reverse or at least eventually destroy the dollar)
Continued decline in housing prices
Decline in real consumption of more than 1%
Indeterminate on the [...]

Lately all we hear about is the price of oil, food, and gold. We hear about how this bank or investment has enough funding, but what we aren’t hearing about as much is the issue of water. Jim Roger’s is concerned about Northern China and its ability to procure water. I’m curious [...]

I’m going to start a section on India and China, which I will eventually turn into its own section. For now this is mainly my mental vomit.
So, the Shanghai stock market is down about 60% for the year, China is seeing factory closures, and what will the gov’t do? If they keep money [...]