Entries Tagged as 'china'

China: Coal Price and Clean Energy

August 29th, 2010 13 Comments

Stacy Summary: China looks like it is deploying a Bruce Lee energy policy. With America’s overwhelming military force and spend in the Middle East securing oil reserves and the world community apparently behind or unconcerned about this frequent recourse to force, it really makes zero sense to a nation like China to devise energy policies [...]

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Exodus from China predicted as multinationals finding lower cost workers elsewhere, including in America

August 19th, 2010 31 Comments

Stacy Summary: Seems the  timeline on eco-eco holocaust is shrinking on all fronts. The wage gap between China and US wasn’t supposed to close for another 20 or 30 years. There are signs, however, that this gap is closing much faster than predicted. What’s your prediction?  How soon will it close?  How soon will Chinese [...]

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Climate Overthrow, Shadow Income and Suing BP

August 14th, 2010 8 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Eco-eco unrest.  Iceland was the first government to be ousted in the 21st century over the economic collapse; will Pakistan be the first to be overthrown over ecological collapse? Alabama sues BP over oil spill Fears of civil unrest and military overthrow in Pakistan over flood response Where is all the money coming [...]

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[KR65] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Contango!

August 4th, 2010 108 Comments

Stacy Summary: We look at the latest scandals of box office manipulation in China, $9 billion missing in Iraq and contango in commodities. In the second half of the show, Max talks to internet sensation George Hemminger about his experience with financial collapse in America.

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Growth Takes Toll on China’s Environment as Accidents Double

July 28th, 2010 42 Comments

Stacy Summary: We’ll get a lot of shrieking newbies for posting this, but here is Bloomberg piece on the doubling of environmental accidents in China in first six months of the year including a chemical spill that killed enough fish to feed 72,000 people for a year. **Update** China’s Three Gorges dam close to limit [...]

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[KR59] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Denninger!

July 13th, 2010 149 Comments

Stacy Summary: We look at the latest scandals of IMF forecasts and commercial banks pawning their nations’ gold reserves. In the second half of the show, Max has a most excellent interview with The Market Ticker’s Karl Denninger about market manipulation and flash crashes.

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Toothless stress tests and SAFE dollar losses

July 6th, 2010 9 Comments

Stacy Summary:  More headlines from fantasyland: Europe’s ‘toothless’ bank stress tests making matters worse China SAFE says dollar drop won’t cause real reserve losses

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New generation in China rejecting slave labor, just as Americans embracing it

July 5th, 2010 54 Comments

Stacy Summary:  If you needed any more sign of transfer of wealth and power from one nation to another: China’s new generation of labor won’t accept slave labor “(This is) a new generation of migrant workers,” said Liu Kaiming, executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a privately funded group in Shenzhen that focuses [...]

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Downgrades, safe havens, micro finance and stupid markets

June 16th, 2010 17 Comments

Good morning and thanks for the interesting conversation on the previous thread (Keiser Report 51)! Microfinance goes subprime China invests in Greece hours after downgrade UK provides safe haven for another scumbag oligarch (h/t @Mike/Liverpool) Even the court jester, Cramer, is too embarrassed to act his part in the blatant stupidity of the ‘free market’

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[KR50] Keiser Report – Sucking Gold & Slurping Silver with Freddie, Fannie & Confucius

June 10th, 2010 213 Comments

Stacy Summary: We look at “sucking gold and slurping silver” with Goldman Sachs in China and at banks refusing to buy back their toxic loans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Vincent Fernando of Business Insider about debt deflation, wage inflation and austerity measures.

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