Covid-19
No Consistency in EU Containment Tactics
So, How Does That Work? With the first reported cases in Cyprus, the coronavirus is…
management
How To Survive This Recession
Streaming Digital Communication Emerging As A Critical Corporate Recession Resource At New Year’s I posted…
Vancouver
CMIG , new owner of Grouse Mtn. has ties to Anbang Insurance
From The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/grouse-mountain-acquisition-just-the-start-for-chinese-investment-firm-banker-says/article35699906/ Via The Globe and Mail’s Android app
Vancouver
Rich, Young "Fuerdai" Chinese Are Buying Overseas Properties on Their Smartphones – WSJ
The truth is that for all of the tough talk from Li Xinping about stopping the massive outflows of capital from China, some of it probably dark money obtained from dubious enterprises and kickbacks, nothing has changed in China or in the Western cities eager to share in the wealth. Rich, Young “Fuerdai” Chinese Are Buying Overseas Properties on Their Smartphones. Millennials acquire real estate in other countries as hedge against a weakening currency, homes for their own children when they study abroad
Financial markets
China's Problems Grow: Shanghai Billionaire Guo Guangchang Caught Up in Scandal
In the Autumn of 1999, I joined a Hong Kong friend for the amazing “K98” train trip from Hong Kong north through the heart of China to Beijing, just in time for the 50th Anniversary celebration of the People’s Republic of China. It was my version of Paul Theroux’s “Riding the Iron Rooster,” and the images of China at that time still stick in my head. Since then China has changed so dramatically that those images no longer exist. Since Deng Xiaoping declared that “getting rich is glorious,” and China’s growth has skyrocketed, China’s domestic and international problems have also multiplied.
