Legendary Swedish academic gives his take on the importance of China’s rise and how most people don’t realize what has happened.
hat tip Brendan
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
"The Greek offer is not sufficient and they have to go away to come up with a revised plan," said a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry. The Greeks must first have a plan that satisfies the Germans which this comment states they clearly don't yet and then the Greek Parliament will vote on it this weekend. This said, whatever package gets voted on in Greece is basically an up or down vote on euro membership so we are entering another uncertain weekend for global markets. A failed vote will likely lead to a hard default which may be what...
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May 20th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
The last comments about per capita CO2 and so on always strike me as odd, as if it’s perfectly acceptable to increase your country’s population to infinity.
A serious problem with world resources and CO2 emissions is simply overpopulation. And that is an Asian problem where 2/3rds of the world lives. It is almost taboo to even mention this, so it is always completely ignored.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
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May 20th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
interesting interview – i’d like to make a recommendation of investing in a $10 tripod