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Monday, October 15, 2012

China'a Exporters Say Their Situation Worse Than 2008

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A drop in external demand is laying bare the failure to shift to domestic consumption. On top of the effects from the downturn in Europe, p...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Selling Organs to Pay Debts

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Loan shark debtors in Malaysia (many of them Chinese) sell organs to pay their debts. Gamblers owe Ah Long RM30 million this year FOR the ...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Money Flows out of China Spark Change in How China Creates Money

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Money flowed out of China in August for the third time in 2012. Their standard MO of buying foreign monies from their exporters in exchange ...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Wenzhou Property Speculators are Trapped

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From boom to bust in Wenzhou About 80 percent of speculators from the prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang have been trapped by t...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Tune is Changing in Toronto: Gen Y should Rent

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In 1981 62.1% of households owned by 2001 65.8% by 2006 68.4% did so. Since then it has most likely risen. ( ref ). New blood is essential t...
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Financial Corruption from Bubble Still Haunts U.S. Years after Crash

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The saying about the tide going out applies to transparency for the financial system as well. Profits gloss over a lot of corruption. And re...
Friday, September 21, 2012

An Expat Canadian: Returning home has become "downright frightening"

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Human's are herd/social creatures. Bubbles are about socially constructed myths, making them harder to see from the inside. For the outs...
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Big Drop for Vancouver Prices

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Garth Turner gets a bit of coverage. Big drop predicted for Vancouver real estate prices We'll have something around a 30-to-40 per-ce...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Australian Banks Pass IMF Stress Test

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Pretty stringent tests assuming 5% decline in GDP and 35% fall in house prices. Australian Banks Pass IMF Stress Test Australia's lend...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Canadians buying up Florida Real Estate

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Northern flight: Canadians gobbling up Southwest Florida real estate From July 2011 to June 2012, foreigners accounted for 19 percent of th...