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To: TobagoJack who wrote (45391)	1/17/2009 1:14:42 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217860

>>the sickness of usa wastrelism is systemically deep<< How is it different from Chinese wastrelism? How do you say "biblical lesson" and "tulip mania" in Chinese? A County in China Sees Its Fortunes in Tea Leaves Until a Bubble Bursts By ANDREW JACOBS January 17, 2009 MENGHAI, China — Saudi Arabia has its oil. South Africa has its diamonds. And here in China’s temperate southwest, prosperity has come from the scrubby green tea trees that blanket the mountains of fabled Menghai County. Over the past decade, as the nation went wild for the region’s brand of tea, known as Pu’er, farmers bought minivans, manufacturers became millionaires and Chinese citizens plowed their savings into black bricks of compacted Pu’er. But that was before the collapse of the tea market turned thousands of farmers and dealers into paupers and provided the nation with a very pungent lesson about gullibility, greed and the perils of the speculative bubble. “Most of us are ruined,” said Fu Wei, 43, one of the few tea traders to survive the implosion of the Pu’er market. “A lot of people behaved like idiots.” more: Message 25332028