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Why the Chinese don’t spend : The New Yorker
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China imbalances in runaway growth-corruption, pollution, overbuilding, misallocation
06/27/2005
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The story of Tandem, a bicycle manufacturer in Shunde, Guangdong province, and of other manufacturers targeting the domestic market.
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Experts who agree that its beneficial for the U.S. to lift exports through devaluation of the currency.
10/15/2009
This includes Krugman, recent Nobel Prize winner, Morici, University of Maryland, Hatzius of Goldman and Kasman of JP Morgan. Other experts also welcome the depreciation ogf the dollar as long as it is not a sudden drop. With consumers strapped, quantitiative easing reaching its limits, the stimulus in place, rising unemployment in 2010 and very poor capacity utilization, exports are a sure way to lift the economy. Morici and Krugman see a Chinese disconnect with it siphonig growth away from other countries through keeping its currency low. Morici cites the example of solar panels where China requires 75% domestic content for imports.
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Peter Morici: Behind the Dollar's Dog Days
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Chimerica as economic monster and the 10-10 deal, 10% growth in China and 10% unemployment in the USA.
11/16/2009
Niall Ferguson at Harvard and Moritz Schularick of the Free University of Berlin say giving a peaceful death to this monster is long overdue. Krugman also calls this a world out of balance on the pages of the NYT, November 16, 2009.
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China Will Keep Growing. Just Ask the Soviets.
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Why the Chinese don’t spend : The New Yorker
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Wal-mart China.
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The economy of China in 2010-2012
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Hazards and prospects.
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China Sees Growth Engine in a Web of Fast Trains
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Changes in China's export driven economy
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China's policymakers are shifting the economy from a manufacturer of low cost goods by increasing worker protections, wages and environmental controls towards more innovation and technology added product which are made respecting workers and the environment. Inflation and the stronger yuan are speeding up this shift.
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Robots May Revolutionize China's Electronics Manufacturing
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Yuan's Rise Hurts China's Exporters
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Economist Wu and the growing crony capitalism, increasing inequality, and corrupt bureaucrats in China.
03/29/2009
Wu is not optimistic about the future because he says the crony capitalists and bureaucrats want to get richer and their is a widening income gap and other problems that remain hidden because of the lack of a free media.
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The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
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OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
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Survey in China Shows a Wide Gap in Income
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Peopleâs Daily Article Appears to Rebuke Wen Jiabao
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Uncertainty bedevils the best system
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Hong Kong Wealth Gap on Display in Protests
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Frankly Speaking on the great recession, the dollar and trade deficits 2009-2012
10/14/2009
Peter Morici of the University of Maryland and others express their view in 2009 on what needs to happen. The dollar Morici says needs to be devalued 40-50% against the yuan. He says that while China talks about an alternative reserve currency, it is part of the problem. And the crisis was caused by the U.S. demand that was inflated by the cheap yuan and then collapsed, says Morici.
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An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
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China's looming asset price bubble in late 2009.
01/17/2009
The role of the yuan pegged to the dollar in all this. The need for action to let the currency appreciate now rather than later.
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Three Hurdles for China in the Year of the Tiger
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China savings.
11/30/2009
Savers in China. Consumer spending's share of the economy since 2004 has fallen from 40% to 35%.
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China's State Firms Cling to Their Cash
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Why the Chinese don’t spend : The New Yorker
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As China’s economy slows, real estate bubble looms - The Washington Post
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China's economy after the global economic crisis of 2008.
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Stimulus spending, surge in bank loans.
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A New U.S. Dialogue With China
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China's Frugal Consumer
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