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In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels(nytimes.com)
3 points by fspeech 9y ago|0 comments
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by fspeech 9y ago
Interesting to see how much the NYC property will go for. I don't think the regulators are that concerned about HNA's properties in China. Domestically it is a zero sum game. Their loss would be someone else's gain, as long a
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by fspeech 9y ago
HNA seems to have made money on disposed assets so far. Maybe they are hanging onto the losers for now.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Maybe you didn't see that his premise is that no one in China can own land outright. But you are right concentration of land ownership is problematic for a crowded country like China and it was one of causes for the peasant revolution.
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by fspeech 9y ago
School enrollment is permitted for those with temporary resident registration (which most everyone should qualify) but requires three year continuous registration, so is still a high bar to cross. Hope to see continued relaxation. They will
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by fspeech 9y ago
I think this has been much relaxed recently. You just need to prove that you live in Shanghai for more than 6 months (rental is okay) and either pay social security taxes or are registered as seeking employment. Thanks to the one child poli
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by fspeech 9y ago
I think creativity is the wrong thing to focus on if you are interested in where China may fall short as it largely depends on personal initiative. People are creative despite of their government and society, which all exert conforming pres
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by fspeech 9y ago
"banning people from trains and planes if their citizen score is not high enough" This is a myth created by inaccurate reporting. For details on what the policy is exactly see my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinato
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by fspeech 9y ago
You seem to have an overly simplistic view of human nature which may have triggered gp's racist alarm. Look back into the history of Western science: plenty of creativity from scientists who grew up in the eras before creativity gained
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by fspeech 9y ago
Here are the original documents in Chinese: http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879653.html http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879654.html The documents do not make &q
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by fspeech 9y ago
Air travel has been considered luxury until recently and may still be for most. China has a very developed passenger train network and road network. The train ban for non-safety-related cases only bans travelling in first class/sleeper
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by fspeech 9y ago
Here are the original NDRC documents being reported here: http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879653.html for air travel http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879654.html
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China’s Economy Is Not Normal. It Doesn’t Have to Be(nytimes.com)
3 points by fspeech 9y ago|0 comments
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A Chinese Mayor-To-Be Tells His Story(chinafile.com)
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by fspeech 9y ago
Reading the article, it seems that they are trying to explain the sound recording posted on the internet. They are not privy to any other data and it is just speculation on how this may relate to symptoms reported by the diplomats.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Deng was not the party's general secretary either during his reign. However he was the nexus of the party, the informal "paramount leader".
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by fspeech 9y ago
Deng had a lot of informal power and never held the title of president. Deng's power was not subject to any term limit.
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by fspeech 9y ago
While I tend to agree that equity basket is generally better for the uninformed, one should realize that this is also dependent on the faith in the politics. Generally it is difficult today to find a company that is not leveraged outside of
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by fspeech 9y ago
I remember Fidelity had online bonds buying as well. As Buffett said, today's bonds are fairly expensive, offering little upside. I just think people should also consider the implication for equities.
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by fspeech 9y ago
The bonds were significantly more certain than the commons, since owners were generally not subject to dilution risk. I was not referring to the height of immediate post Lehman uncertainty. Even after the Treasury Department bought preferre
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by fspeech 9y ago
E*Trade offers access to BondDesk. Vanguard has online bond buying access as well.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Right. There are opportunities in equities not available to small investors and there are opportunities in bonds not available to whale-sized investors.
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by fspeech 9y ago
You are only allowed to buy 10k in I-bonds per year and you will forfeit part of the interests if you hold them for less than 5 years.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Quote: ... A poll of investment experts asked in late 2007 to forecast long-term common stock-market returns likely would have seen them guess, on average, close to the 8.5% actually delivered by the S&P 500,” he said I fear people may
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by fspeech 9y ago
Not sure if you know about export control and the Wassenaar Arrangement. I don't think Intel can manufacture in China at the advanced node even if they wanted to.
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by fspeech 9y ago
If they really just want to steal wouldn't it be easier if they let Tesla have a factory? As it stands now China is on the way to sell 1 million EVs a year and Tesla is not going to have a factory by 2020 at the earliest. Doesn't
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by fspeech 9y ago
If you look at large companies' accounts, they typically have inter segment reconciliations. Where intra-company trades are booked can be artificial. In the Chinese case, the city of Tianjin, e.g., which has a financial district, booke
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by fspeech 9y ago
These numbers came out after shakeups. New local leaders (like company boards after an accounting scandal) want to get their base numbers low -- making their own GDP goals a lot easier to achieve.
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Chinese GDP is not a sum of locally reported GDPs. Locally reported GDPs have always exceeded the total GDP, sometimes by a large margin. Now they may lag. A large motivation is how the taxes collected are shared between the central governm
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Scroll to the end of his blog entry. There Terry Tao gives an addendum explaining in layman's terms the meaning of their work: "ADDED LATER: the following analogy (involving functions with just two zeroes, rather than an infinite

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