<<did you get the family a modern cyberphone each, or are you leaving them in the embarrassing GPRS realm?>>
... no need [yet]
perusing today's WSJ, I note a few roadmarkers on the road to TeoTwawKi ...
Message 23116330 says Chinese babies in demand for export, but many no longer qualified to adopt, due to inflation
Message 23116337 says E-bay has had its teeth kicked in in China, retreating, to wait to have its teeth kicked in everywhere else, along with Google, QCOM, etc, plus Walmart. What I do not understand is why folks think new tech will be less vulnerable to globalization than old economy.
Message 23116336 says Calpers sees the light, and will bet with what is coming, and hope for the best as J6P retires by working even longer hours, as 3% return fails to pay for super-size-me big Macs.
Message 23116333 says Chinese stock exchanges will eventually trump those that are elsewhere, perhaps even before international firms are invited/allowed to list on the Shanghai Exchange and vacate NYSE
Message 23116340 says Thailand's answer to weak USD will not spread elsewhere
Message 23116339 says Thailand's answer may at least spread contagion-like to Philippines, than maybe Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Japan, China, etc :0)
Recommendation: accumulate gold while it is still a bargain.
The more outrageous is still ahead of us. |