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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (940)	8/10/2018 3:23:18 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13801

There will be less and less % of Middle Classes among the overall population. If your parents worked hard and gave the kids an education, they would be able to keep middle class status. Not anymore. In Germany even at high school level pone could get a middle class life style. Once capital moved to China, the jobs for the High Schoolers left the country never to return. The level of ambition of poor people is to ascend to middle class and then stop there. That is why you have plane loads of Indians, Africans, LATAM and Eastern Europeans vying to move to advanced countries,

To: Snowshoe who wrote (940)	8/17/2018 9:07:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13801

Trade War Update: U.S. Goes For China's Jugular ELMAT: Industry leaving China “Since Trump announced his plan to impose tariffs on many Chinese goods, many Hong Kong and mainland manufacturers are seriously considering setting up a backup production line in Malaysia or Vietnam to prepare for the worst,” he told the daily. ... “They thought Trump was just bluffing, and they still think like that,” a former U.S. policy advisor was quoted saying in the SCMP, one of Hong Kong’s most well-respected news publishers. “They say things will change after the midterms. They are totally wrong. I feel partly this is because they have become more insulated, and partly because nobody dares to tell Beijing that they are wrong.” Sorry, Xi. The market has spoken on this one. China is the loser. For how long is anybody’s guess. For now, it’s not looking good. forbes.com