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Archive for February, 2009

Countering the Paradox of Thrift

Posted in economics, tagged , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

So I was listening to NPR as usual and they were interviewing this guy, I think he was some kind of Democrat politician, who was talking about the bailout plan. He said that government spending is more effective in stimulating the economy than tax cuts since parts of those tax cuts would be saved.
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Cao Ni Ma

Posted in china, random, tagged , on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Grass Mud Horse
Ah… how I love these random play on words… apparently, the Chinese Wikipedia on Baidu has become a wonderful repository of legendary animals whose names sound coincidentally to various Chinese dirty words and profanity.

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If China had $900bn to blow… #1

Posted in china, economics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

…well, a lot of good can be done in preserving the CCP’s hold on power (as well as making the lives of its people better). I mean they’re using around $500bn right now, but where would we get the most ‘bang for the buck’? I’ll write a few of my own thoughts in a series [...]

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