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Tag Archives: dollar
China’s lack of growth drivers is a bigger risk than inflation: Michael Pettis
(This interview with Michael Pettis, professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, a specialist in Chinese financial markets, was published in DNA edition dated January 10, 2011.) China’s headline inflation numbers have had global financial markets bracing for tightening measures … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy, Interview
Tagged bubble, central bank, China, consumption, currency, dollar, Economy, equity market, financial crisis, geopolitics, inflation, manufacturing, Michael Pettis, monetary policy, politics, property bubble, trade, US, yuan
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‘It’s a myth that Made-in-China goods are of poor quality’
(This interview about the campaign, by an unlikely candidate, to pitch the made-in-China label as measuring up to international quality standards, was published in DNA edition dated January 1, 2011. It offers an interesting counter-narrative to reports about the poor … Continue reading
Posted in China, Interview
Tagged China, consumption, currency, dollar, Economy, Made in China, manufacturing, trade, yuan
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‘China can’t win a trade war; it will be massacred’
(This interview with economist and fund manager Richard Duncan, on the prospects of a trade war, and its implications, was published in DNA edition dated November 29, 2010.) Venky Vembu In his first book, The Dollar Crisis, published in 2005, … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy, India, Interview
Tagged Ben Bernanke, bubble, China, currency, dollar, Economy, euro, Europe, financial crisis, fiscal stimulus, food, Greece, Ireland, Keynes, monetary stimulus, poverty, property bubble, trade, trade war, US, war, yuan
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China’s ‘hot money’ turned on by local Viagra
(This article, about a rush of hot money in China into non-traditional investments, including a traditional Chinese medicine that serves as a sexual aphrodisiac, was published in DNA edition dated November 25, 2010.) Venky Vembu China’s ‘hot money’ speculators, bearing … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy
Tagged bubble, China, currency, dollar, Economy, property bubble, trade, traditional Chinese medicine
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‘China’s economy is dangerously addicted to cheap money’
(This interview, with Prof Patrick Chovanec, who teaches at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, was published in DNA edition dated November 8, 2010.) Patrick Chovanec straddles several worlds with equal felicity. In 1994, as an aide to the then … Continue reading
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Tagged China, currency, dollar, Economy, geopolitics, Patrick Chovanec, politics, trade, US, yuan
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There’s a much greater chance reforms will accelerate in India: Stephen Roach
(This interview with Dr Stephen Roach – in which he shared his perspective on the Indian, US and Chinese economies – was published in DNA edition dated June 29, 2010.) In the three years since Dr Stephen Roach, inarguably … Continue reading
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Tagged currency, dollar, Economy, Eurozone, property bubble, Stephen Roach, US, yuan
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This is a very dangerous time for China: Jim Walker
(This interview with the legendary Dr Jim Walker, founder of Asianomics, was published in DNA edition dated June 22, 1010.) If economists were stellar constellations, Jim Walker would be Ursa Major. The grizzly former CLSA economist and founder of Asianomics, … Continue reading
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Tagged China, dollar, Economy, financial crisis, India, Jim Walker, Made in China, property bubble, trade, US, yuan
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Where have all the ‘dollar bears’ gone?
(This column was published in DNA edition dated May 26, 2010.) Venky Vembu Seven months ago, I received a rather interesting real estate proposition: a reader wrote in with an offer to sell me “a bridge in Brooklyn”. And, being … Continue reading
A Mahatma and a Mao in your pocket
(This column was published in DNA edition dated April 28, 2010.) Venky Vembu Barely two weeks from now, perhaps the biggest, most significant, economic news story of this year will begin to unfold. In the way it plays out, it … Continue reading