(1) Re <<While I could be wrong, I get the sense that your search for
"opportunity" is always biased to the downside.>>
you are wrong. I search for opportunity that may be true. I typically do not short. I like my sleep. Am not now exactly long, but am definitely not short.
(2) Re <<Again, I could be wrong, but it seems to me the SEC is jumping on the Lighthizer bandwagon to score some points.>>
you are right, that the SEC is jumping on wagon per Pence all-government approach, but is actually doing Xi Jinping's bidding.
(3) Re <<At this time I do not see China saying "no". The cost of a positive response is small. The cost of a negative response is greater and greater mistrust, and that is the face China wants to and needs to change, to prosper.>>
You might appreciate China / Xi Jinping keeping quiet for a very good reason, that being china wants those listings to be pressured in USA so that the companies would migrate to Shanghai. The companies are understandably less enthusiastic about Shanghai, and so looking at Hong Kong.
At the moment Hong Kong real estate is hiccupping, but really limited to residential and retail, as opposed to office and industrial, because the companies moving in for tax-home is increasing. Folks prefer Hong Kong to Shanghai, for the freedom, and to NYC for the less-hassle.
(4) Re <<Now what pisses me off about all this is the typical Western/SEC idiocy. Why the heck did we allow foreign companies to list on the exchanges if we did not have all the audit requirements in place?
I'll tell you why. Because the fricken' banks and exchanges wanted to get their grubby hands on the IPO and trading money. To heck with what comes after. Same with the SEC. More business, more corruption more fines.
What a funny way to care for society. Put criminals and idiots in leadership positions. Keep all the really smart people wrapped up in problems of survival. Keep the rest tied up in man-made law, but bring God into it whenever convenient.>>
Sounds about right, and has been working extremely well.
Maybe the Yellow Vests in Paris are no different than the Occupy-central in HK and the TianAnMen crowd in Beijing.
One might be forgiven for observing that the rebellion is spreading, slowly, along with the pain, and following the pain, that which is spreading. Am guessing greater pain for the many than most, everywhere, going forward.
Maybe technology can make a difference for the better, or worse.
At some juncture, per martin armstrong, we might see a tipping point, and maybe 2026 / 2032.
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