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	<title>the rational post &#187; china</title>
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		<title>demise of the dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/10/06/demise-of-the-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This type of geopolitical conspiracy would be easy to dismiss from any other source, but speculation of an imminent de-dollarization by some of the world&#8217;s largest oil consumers is even more chilling when it&#8217;s penned by one of Britain&#8217;s most celebrated international journalists&#8230;
The demise of the dollar
By Robert Fisk, October 6, 2009
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning &#8211; along with China, Russia, Japan and France &#8211; to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen ...]]></description>
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		<title>china inc.</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/01/04/china-inc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This counter-factual analysis of China&#8217;s path toward capitalism reveals that the country&#8217;s biggest cities aren&#8217;t necessarily the engines of dynamic Asian progress that modern commentators have suggested, and that the country&#8217;s future may lie in rural areas where entrepreneurship and competition have thrived since Deng Xiaoping&#8217;s Four Modernizations&#8230;

Private ownership: The real source of China&#8217;s economic miracle
December 2008 • Yasheng Huang
The credibility of American-style capitalism was among the earliest victims of the global financial crisis. With Lehman Brothers barely in its grave, pundits the world over rushed to perform the last rites for US economic ideals, including limited government, minimal regulation, and the free-market allocation of credit. In contemplating alternatives to the fallen American model, some looked to China, where markets ...]]></description>
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		<title>the 44th president</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/11/05/the-44th-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the world comes to terms with yesterday&#8217;s historic call for change, Nouriel Roubini and his team have pulled together a laundry list of the many great challenges that lie ahead&#8230;

Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States
RGE Monitor
The 2008 U.S. Presidential election was historic itself owing to the candidates’ profile. But the timing of the elections as the U.S. and global economy are in the midst of the worst financial crisis and recession in decades reminds us of the Great Depression era and the 1980s recession when incoming Presidents Roosevelt and Reagan faced immense challenges to cure the economy’s woes.
By the time Obama takes his oath in January 2009, he will face an economy which is still in ...]]></description>
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		<title>the world is fat</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/05/28/the-world-is-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further commentary on the interconnected themes of income disparity, agricultural inflation, and selective de-globalization, this time by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Perhaps most compelling is the charge that a rising tide doesn&#8217;t lift all ships, and those who have benefited least from a &#8220;flattening&#8221; of our economic superstructure are often the most exposed to rising prices and shifting patterns of supply and demand. Also of note is the graphic artist chosen to visualize our scramble for scarce natural resources, yet another gifted Walrus alum&#8230;
The Rich Get Hungrier
By AMARTYA SEN in the New York Times
WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up — or grow worse over time? The answer may be both. The recent ...]]></description>
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		<title>shanghai&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/10/26/shanghaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent reports have pegged open interest in the world&#8217;s largest IPO at nearly US$400 billion. That&#8217;s a lot of capital ready to speculate on a still unproven Chinese macroeconomy, particularly in the face of its ongoing structural woes. Could this be the end of the beginning for capitalism in China? Or perhaps the beginning of the end&#8230;
The Enduring Allure of China
by Peter Zeihan, Stratfor.com

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is expected to raise nearly $22 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) &#8212; the largest in history &#8212; after shares are made available to retail investors Oct. 27. The ICBC offering is the latest in a series of IPOs involving Chinese banks, into which Western investment firms have ...]]></description>
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		<title>serenity now</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/09/06/serenity-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bubble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley&#8217;s chief global economist adds his voice to the growing choir of doomsayers, predicting heartbreak for employees and consumers throughout the high-cost, developed world. His thesis is simple: growth in the world economy has come not from soaring wages but from bubbalicious home prices, soaring corporate profits, American consumerism  and low-cost third-world labour. As jobs continue to stream offshore and the markets pray for a &#8220;soft landing&#8221;, recession may be the only tune this chorus is willing to sing&#8230;
Global Growth Paradox
by Stephen S. Roach
The global labour arbitrage tilts returns to labour away from the high-wage industrial world toward the low-wage developing world.
After fixating on an inflation scare over the past four months, financial markets have turned their attention ...]]></description>
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		<title>made in china</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2005/10/13/made-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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When was the last time you looked at the label on just about anything? Chances are, if the item cost you less than $30, you just participated in the global phenomenon we&#8217;ve come to know and love as the Low-Cost Chinese Import. Entire retail franchises have already been built built around this new breed of price-conscious shopper, and while consumers are absolutely beaming at the prospect of $1 placemats and flashlights and coffee pots, little time is spent reflecting on where those items are actually made, and how little the workers are getting paid to actually make them.
The funny thing is, given two items of identical value, informed consumers will typically buy the one that costs them less, regardless of ...]]></description>
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