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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 375.93-1.8%Nov 14 4:00 PM EST

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To: elmatador who wrote (78913)9/1/2011 9:26:57 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (2) of 217768
 
just in in-tray, pointing to inflation of sex driven by girl shortage, at least in the financial industry, or perhaps i am reading the e-mail wrong

btw, my daughter erita, not yet but just about 7, says she would not give time of day to any boy driving a ferrari and would only consider dating boys driving mini coopers. this was said when a bunch of us adults accompanied a troop of kids to see "cars2" - i recommend the movie even if one has no young kids.

From: C
Time: 2011 09 02 7:31 AM
Subject: RE: xxxx left xxx

I went out with a former associate from 5 yrs ago. He is trying to shift from banking/research to banking/sales. Chinese bank hiring is still a little aggressive amidst slowdown. At the same time a lot of operations appear to have shifted around. Many teams appear to have the usual hard ball politics and fighting for bonus pools in a market that has been tougher than they expected. The old school banks seem to have their own head count cuts and freezes.

My friend points -- a bit like the Economist cover on girls not getting married in China -- to his girlfriends's friends who are turning down suitors with the latest sports cars. And then there is talk of money in bank accounts. Minimum of Rmb5m??

Going back to a piece I wrote on mainland Chinese working in HK. There has been a sea change in last 10 or so years in the composition of the go getter (go get her) workforce in HK-Central. It's not the HK Chinese at odds with the gweiilos and their cushy jobs. ... It's the mish mash of Chinese culture and work clashes that the [home office] Human Resource departments have no idea how to deal with.

It's a mess. It's Hong Kong.

Question: So why is macau still booming? Answer: the provincial loan sourcing that has been recent talk on clampdown, this money is getting laundered out now.

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I got a lot of other comments on below of yesterday -- including more than one comment that xxx might be a short. Certainly worth trying to figure out what's going on with the Asia strategy, though there have been some good analysts going there (but the package is another story). The stock appears to be down about as much as yyy.
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