As we’ve often pointed out, reading the New York Times is almost always a bit of a hermeneutic experience …
The “official” news is usually at the top, followed by the necessary background, [br]
but it’s only towards the end that you get at what’s REALLY going on … 😉 …
30 March 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
When four executives from Rio Tinto, the giant Anglo-Australian mining company, were arrested last July on charges of stealing commercial secrets, as well as taking and receiving bribes from Chinese officials, [br]
The purchase of Volvo, one of Europe’s most storied brands, shows how China has emerged not just as the largest auto market by number of vehicles sold in the last year,
but also as a country determined to capture market share around the globe.
While the Google / Chinese government drama is far from played out,
one aspect of the situation that hasn’t received much attention are the potential implications for China’s own Internet giants.
Obviously, access to China’s huge domestic market is a key prize in the global media sweepstakes, [br]
While far from anything like what a) NEEDS to be done or b) COULD be done,
Conventional academic economics is a disease.
Despite its pretensions and mathematical “certainties,” there is no branch of social science more dis-connected from its alleged subject matter than economics – and that is saying something, something not good.
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15 March 2010.
Even for freaks like us, a nine-volume, 2200 page report – like the one analyzing the Black September 2008 collapse of Lehman Bros, compiled under the direction of court-appointed Bankruptcy Trustee Anton Valukas, former Federal prosecutor & chair of the Chicago corporate law firm Jenner & Block – is a bit much to swallow in one bite.
27 February 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.
27 February 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com, 16 February 2010
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com, 16 February 2010
