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China's Real Currency Concern
Jun 30, 2009, 2:00pm
Posted by Greg Michaels
As China searches for an alternative to the dollar, it has another more immediate threat to its own currency. The growth of the online gaming industry has reached the point where virtual currencies are regularly being converted into cash and,...
Finally Someone Who Doesn't Hate Hedge Funds
Jun 19, 2009, 1:03pm
Posted by Greg Michaels
It turns out hedge funds do have a friend in this world- China. While legions of politicians in DC spend countless hours and dollars determining how best to handicap the hedgies' ability to operate in the free market, the sovereign...
China's Smack Addiction Continues Unabated
Apr 15, 2009, 3:58pm
Posted by Equity Private
No wonder they want to invent a reserve currency that has some merits over the United States Dollar. It would be a form of methadone treatment: China, the U.S. government's biggest creditor, increased its purchases of American securities in February...
Send In The Marines!
Mar 27, 2009, 3:44pm
Posted by Equity Private
We aren't laughing with you, Max, we are laughing at you. "So any country looks at those examples and they say, 'You know if we get out of the U.S. dollar, does this mean that U.S. Marines are going to...
Uh, Will Someone Please Go Downstairs And Pay For China's Taxi?
Mar 13, 2009, 3:39pm
Posted by Equity Private
It is popular to speculate about what might happen if China ever grew tired of providing the United States with cheap capital to fund [mass consumerism/the real-estate bubble/our exorbitant lifestyle/our fat/flat-screen televisions/the deadly "greed virus"]. We think these questions overblown....
Goldman Sachs Silences Employees
Jul 31, 2008, 9:38am
Posted by Bess Levin
I can barely even type this because I'm so upset that my hands are shaking and I'm experiencing chest pains and a tingly feeling in my left arm. GOLDMAN SACHS HAS BLOCKED ITS EMPLOYEES FROM COMMENTING ON DEALBREAKER, AS REGISTERED...
Silence!
Jul 30, 2008, 2:50pm
Posted by Bess Levin
The China Securities Regulatory Commission has ordered domestic fund managers to not publicly badmouth any Chinese stocks, in an effort to maintain stability "for the sake of a harmonious and successful Olympic Games."** This is a great idea and one...
Too Chinese To Fail: Fannie And Freddie's Other Government Sponsors
Jul 15, 2008, 9:02am
Posted by John Carney
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are often referred to as "government sponsored entitities" but which government are we talking about? As it turns out, the Russians, Taiwanese and other funds sovereign hold most of the bonds of these companies. China,...
The Risks Of China: Video Site Goes Dark
Jul 07, 2008, 9:32am
Posted by John Carney
A group of investors in Chinese internet company got a rough lesson in the risks of doing business in the unpredictable and politically influenced business environment there. On Thursday, a website called 56.com went down without explanation. 56.com, which was...
China Now Carrying The Torch For Worldwide Galliphobia
Apr 22, 2008, 9:45am
Posted by John Carney
Remember when hating the French was as American as apple pie? Those were the good old days of Freedom Fries and Liberty Kissing. (Although the promised land of anti-French sentiment, downward price pressure on the best burgundies and champagne, never...
