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  • Economies, Trade and Markets

  • These pages contain a series of recent essays and news articles on economies, international trade, commodity markets and products, and the various political and economic pressures that affect them.

    The iPad lesson for China Trade
    China's trade surplus is mostly by US multinationals
    An iPod's Global Value
    Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It
    Tech Supply Chain Exposes Limits of Trade Metrics
    Apple added $2 billion to the US trade deficit with China last year.
    The Irrelevant Yuan?
    You Can't Change China's Trade Balance by Adding $0.25 to the Cost of a T-shirt.
    Fair Trade
    What is Unfair about Developing Crucial National Industries?
    Turbulence in the Markets
    How Speculators Are Crippling the Copper Industry
    US High-Tech Export Curbs Cause the US-China Trade Deficit
    The Yuan gained 25 percent against the dollar, but the US deficit still widened.
    US blocks China fibre optics deal over national security
    Joint venture abandoned with China’s Tangshan
    China economy: New trade battleground
    Is a new front about to open up in China's trade wars?
    China's ODI set to overtake FDI 'within three years'
    The US, EU and Latin America will see a rapid increase in investment from China
    Petroleum - Betting & Bluffing in the new Great Game
    China's economy is thirsty, and it's drinking deeply.
    US Lawmakers Challenge China Joint Ventures
    GE is just complaining about its short-term pain
    Chinese Economy Treads Risky Path. (Ask Japan)
    Memo From Beijing
    The Asian Way
    America has lost its way.
    Why the Debt Crisis Hit Europe Harder
    Than the Emergent Countries of the South.
    Behind China's Trade Deficit
    Focus on yuan misguided; investment and consumption, not exports, are engines of economy.
    The Weak American Dollar May Create Housing Bubble in China
    Allegations of foreign "hot money" real estate are not groundless.
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    China is in an Economic League of its Own
    Analysis: More than decoupled

    Allegations of foreign "hot money" real estate are not groundless.
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    Quit griping and spend your savings....now!
    What Some Central Bankers Think of Your Savings