China

What The Apprentice can tell you about China

by Henry Becker 08.26.2009
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I will be coming clean in this post.  Yes, I did watch The Apprentice with Donald Trump.   At the beginning of the season I did watch the intro episode revealed what each contestant did for a living.  I pointed out to my wife that it seemed that every other contestant was in real estate of [...]

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Can emerging Asian economies shop the global economy back?

by Henry Becker 06.26.2009
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Many economists will have you believe that without the American buyer the world is in trouble.  Maybe.  There are more than a few wise economists that will tell you that instead of the engine of global growth the United States is the caboose.  There are some not so surprising statistics pointing to the back of [...]

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Can anything break Aluminum?

by Henry Becker 06.18.2009
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Aluminum has been experiencing quite a rally under puzzling circumstances.  Like most commodities aluminum has taken it on the chin in the last year.  But, in the last three months the performance of the ETN that tracks aluminum, the iPath Aluminum ETN (ticker JJU), is up over 17%.  The puzzling part is that some say [...]

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