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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Snowshoe who wrote (52701)7/25/2009 7:15:44 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217944
 
2006 ugly chinese tourists to paris surges over ugly american rubber-neckers in numbers and average daily spends

2007 gaudy macau overtakes ridiculous las vegas in receipts

2008 frivolous china car sales crossed over overdone american car sales

2009 china odi (outward bound overseas direct investment) overtakes fdi (inward bound foreign direct investment), shanghai share market overtakes tokyo same same etc

the roadmarkers are passing by in rapid succession

as china learns from money rock hong kong and applies lessons from freedom mountain kowloon, while america puzzles over hong kong's success given that the rock has no paper constitution worthy of mention, founding fathers or found mothers, no serious elections, and so has to put everything down to freedom of speech and religion, even as small government in combination with low tax is the so very obvious answer set.

visited by friends from used-to-be-free france this weekend, and they are a bit puzzled as we sail repulse bay bothered by other boats while gawking at homes on shore marked at new, all-time-high watermark, and shop causeway bay, traversing amongst shoulder-to-shoulder so-many (mainland) mandarin-speaking (local hk folks speak cantonese) shoppers, all the while listening to me going on about the terminal-stage end-game global economic depression :0)