Archive for the 'China' Category

Today’s Links: Skepticism Abounds

Lance on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: Absolute Return, Asset Allocation, China, Domestic Equities, Economic Indicators, Economics, Federal Reserve, Global Equity, Hedge Funds, International Equities, Latest data, Risk, today's links

Morningstar takes a look at the Long/Short category of mutual funds. They, like I, appreciate John Hussman.
China turned in yet another double digit year:
China’s economy grew by 11.4 per cent in 2007, the highest pace in 13 years, but the trend of decelerating exports to a slowing US recorded in the final two quarters is [...]

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Other Countries GDP’s as US States

Lance on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: China, Developing Markets, Economics, Emerging Markets, Louisiana

From Strange Maps:

This is quite an education. Click for a larger image.
Although the economies of countries like China and India are growing at an incredible rate, the US remains the nation with the highest GDP in the world – and by far: US GDP is projected to be $13,22 trillion (or $13.220 billion) in 2007, [...]

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Labour regulations in China and India: Economic Freedom in Relief

Lance on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: China, Developing Markets, Economics, Emerging Markets, Trade

This is a stunning statistic:
…the annual expansion in China’s trade has been larger than India’s total annual trade during last several years.
Tyler Cowen hones in on this point, amongst a bounty of good points:
The most important factor that still holds back large [Indian] firms from entering these products is a set of draconian labour laws [...]

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