Posted by julian on Mar 10, 2010 in
Politics
Europe and America are still in the grips of cold bleak weather with no sign of Spring arriving just yet. The Southern Hemisphere has been basking in one of best summers on record. The Copenhagen get together in January ended up a disaster for the Al Gore lovers. The Northern Hemisphere weather could not have [...]
Tags: America, China, E.U., Wall Street
Posted by julian on Feb 23, 2010 in
Economy
The Chinese are selling their holdings and last week Japan took over first place with $767.8 billion of Treasury bonds supplanting China’s holdings of $755.4. Having only attained a high school diploma, I have huge difficulty how all this debt nonsense works. Over the past year the Federal Reserve has been buying Treasury bonds, so [...]
Tags: China, Federal Reserve, Iran, Japan, North Korea, Zimbabwe
Posted by julian on Feb 22, 2010 in
Politics
More music to my ears; founder of Gome Electronics, Huang Guangyu languishes in jail somewhere in China awaiting trial for bribery, corruption and share manipulation. From humble beginnings he built Gome into the largest retail electronics chain in China. In 2006, he was forced to sell off 25% of his holdings in the Hong Kong [...]
Tags: China, Gome Electronics, Hong Kong
Posted by julian on Feb 19, 2010 in
Politics
This week Hollywood arrived to conquer Capitol Hill in the form of that clown, the Dalai Lama who is adored by celebrities like Richard Gere. The guy has been at loggerheads with China which has sovereignty over Tibet. Poor guy has to live in the lap of luxury in exile in neighboring India and traveling [...]
Tags: Buddhists, China, Dalai Lama, India, Obama, Tibet