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Recent Entries in economics

• China's Housing Bubble and Divorce

  December 26, 2010 12:06 AM
  When the housing bubble crashed in the U.S., it sent the economy in a big tailspin putting many families under stress.  By comparison, the flush of money flooding into China's housing sector is generating a wave of divorces...  What?  You... 0

• Stimulus, Quantitative Easing, Tax Cuts ... affect on China

  December 12, 2010 9:50 AM
  Since the financial markets fell right through the floor in 2008* plunging the global economy into chaos, the U.S. government and Federal Reserve has tried every rabbit in the hat to restart the economy.  Bank rescues, buying assets at inflated... 0

• Dreams of Economics & Blogging

  December 3, 2010 9:42 AM
  Just a few days ago, I had a dream where the homeowners in a country overseas would list their properties on public stock exchanges and property would not only be bought/sold with a a click of a mouse button but... 0

• Surprise ... California budget crisis again

  November 13, 2010 8:58 PM
  Just last month, I posted a few links to federal government spending.  Now it's California's turn.  (Although I live overseas, I cannot get out of California income taxes at the moment -- you must truly retire and sever all ties.)Unfortunately,... 0

• Consumerism in China

  November 9, 2010 7:02 AM
  I ran across a few blog / forum threads about how people live outside the developed world. Specifically, the idea that people in the developing are a different kind of consumer because of their culture.  Well this is my visual... 0

• Currency Exchange in Singapore Airport

  October 18, 2010 5:51 PM
  About a week ago, I came back from a thoroughly enjoyable vacation in Singapore.  I must say it is an incredible food city with not only a wide variety but also low prices.  Part of the source of the variety... 0

• Government just needs to stop spending!

  October 3, 2010 11:16 AM
  It's election time and this is a common refrain from not only politicians but the electorate. The problem of course is nobody ever states which major budget items they are willing to cut. Sure, they'll talk about tiny slivers (NASA,... 0

• Health Care Reform

  March 23, 2010 1:10 AM
  The big news in the U.S. is of course health care reform. Nancy Pelosi (who actually represents my old district) held tough on her party members in the House and made it happen even when it seemed Obama's administration might... 0

• Sales Psychology

  March 8, 2010 6:03 AM
  March 8 is International Women's Day in China and many other countries around the world. Walking around local stores for women's clothing, signs showing "3.8 discount" representing the date 3/8 were everywhere. In China (and Chinatowns across the world), discounts... 0

• Random follow-ups

  January 25, 2010 12:44 AM
  Follow-ups to some of my previous posts: Website Changes The web user interface is now consistent across all screens. In addition, some previously missing functionality has been restored. Copied style from Home (last 10 entries) to Category Archives and Search... 0

• College Costs, Prisoners' Dilemma

  September 26, 2009 2:25 AM
  For the past few years, I've been putting money away in Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 plan for my kids. Just recently, CollegeAdvantage brought back their referral bonus program and various personal finance sites (examples: MyMoneyBlog, The Sun's Financial Diary) are posting... 0

• Reports from the USA

  September 16, 2009 10:24 PM
  We're regularly in touch with friends back in the USA as it's pretty easy/cheap with VOIP phone services. Recently, almost everybody is saying local economy has slowed down drastically in the past 2 months. Perhaps the heart of the recession... 0

• Reality check on housing

  September 9, 2009 3:42 PM
  I was browsing the internet and came across this article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32756481/ns/business-real_estate. The meat of the article, I don't really care about. We all already know why we're in this mess It's the secondary headline that caught my attention.Official says a... 0

• Labor Day

  September 7, 2009 10:27 PM
  Now that people have partially recovered from a full day of BBQing hot dogs and guzzling beer, perhaps some reflection on the history of Labor Day is in order. Let me quote a snippet from Wikipedia:"The first Labor Day in... 0