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Fighting Swine Flu without a Panic Button

By  newcomer

May 15, 2009
Financial & Capital Market

Fighting Swine Flu without a Panic ButtonScience and SARS lessons encourage caution and calm rather than apathy and excessive anxiety during the swine flu outbreak....

China's Consumption Conundrum

By  Michael Pettis

May 14, 2009
Economic Outlook

China's extraordinary lending boom already is raising the specter of another nonperforming loan crisis like the 1990s. With $670 billion in net new lending for the first quarter of 2009 -- total loans grew 15% in just three months -- many commentators have wondered where all the money is going. But too little thought has been given to what this will mean for the course of the country's broader economic reforms. The short answer is, a lot....

The Stimulus China Needs

By  newcomer

May 7, 2009
Economic Outlook

China's economy has apparently bounced back from the horror of the fourth quarter of 2008, when broad swathes of industry stuttered to a sudden halt. The hills are now alive with the sound of even more building than usual. Indeed, some have called it the most successful stimulus package in history....

The World Depends On US-China Cooperation

By  newcomer

Apr 30, 2009
Other

Recent events confirm that we're living in a new world of disorder. North Korea tested a missile that could reach the U.S., and is threatening to resume its nuclear-weapons program; the Taliban is using drug money to destabilize Afghanistan and turn that country back into a terrorist safe haven; the financial crisis has sparked a global recession; and unchecked greenhouse gas emissions are transforming the global climate. ...

Bulls, not Bears, May End in Tears

By  Andy Xie

Apr 28, 2009
Economic Outlook

False hope built on government stimulus measures may feel good today, but it will only delay necessary reforms....

China Q1 Economist Confidence Index Rises

By  jaychou

Apr 28, 2009
Macroeconomic

Most economists said China's economy will bottom out in 2009, although it may need more time for the recovery to be apparent. ...

Flow Direction of China’s 4.58 Trillion Newly Increased Credit in first quarter of 2009

By  Kofi Duan

Apr 24, 2009
Financial & Capital Market

Frankly speaking, it’s a secret now. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) is inspecting it; but one issue is clear: most of the newly increased credit, if not all, entered the SOEs (state-owned enterprises) and government supported programs. The private sector gets rather a small part of it. ...

UN: China Jobs Plans Need To Reach Grassroots

By  newcomer

Apr 24, 2009
Financial & Capital Market

Creating new jobs for the record number of graduates and the ranks of jobless migrant workers this year is in some ways giving China a chance to help rebalance its economic growth, a senior official in China for the labor agency of the United Nations said Wednesday. ...

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Andy Xie

Andy Xie

Board member of Rosetta Stone Advisors Limited, Morgan Stanley former star economist.

Michael Pettis

Michael Pettis

Michael Pettis is a professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets. He has also taught, from 2002 to 2004, at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and, from 1992 to 2001, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Bradford Delong

Bradford Delong

Professor of economics at University of California, Berkeley

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