blogs.wsj.com - 2/9/2009
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Just how fast is China growing - or is it growing at all? Obtaining precise answers to these questions has become increasingly urgent for many economists and investors as they try to gauge trends in the world's third-largest economy. It's not clear that China's statistics are wildly inaccurate, ...
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naked capitalism —
Death toll climbs to 130 in Australia's worst-ever fires Times Online. This is awful, and no end in sight. Plunging price of carbon may threaten investment Independent Dissecting China’s GDP Yields … Confusion WSJ Economics Blog Swiss banks to announce massive losses Brieitbart (hat tip reader Dwight) China Institute Proposes Weaker Yuan to Boost Growth Bloomberg. We were saying before it was fashionable that China should want to weaken the yuan. The big reason not to is they risk massive retaliation, which as a big time exporter, will hurt them more than trade deficit countries like the ...
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... Just how fast is China’s economy growing (or contracting)? (Real Time Economics) ...
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