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Jun
19th

Sun

China Financial Markets » How to become virtuous and save more

This is an exceptional essay to understand global imbalances and consequences of capital and trade flows.

Tags: US china germany spain euro trade balance economics

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Mar
15th

Tue

He believes the uneven sex ratio can explain half of the increase in private saving between 1990 and 2005. He explained that the marriage market is becoming very competitive with so few girls. Chinese parents want to accumulate as much wealth as possible to ensure that their son can attract a wife. It is also important to provide sons with the best education possible. A competitive marriage market means that members of the disadvantaged gender must raise their game, which in China means greater wealth and education.

— Trade: The sex trade imbalance | The Economist

Tags: china trade balance economics demographics

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Mar
11th

Fri

China overtakes US as German export destination

Tags: germany china EU export trade balance

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Nov
21st

Sun

US trade deficit: total and vs China

Source: SocGen Presents Its Vision For The Future In Several Pretty Charts | zero hedge

Tags: trade balance US China economics

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Oct
26th

Tue

FT.com / Currencies - The currency wars explained

Tags: economics currency wars FT trade balance foreign reserves

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Oct
17th

Sun

Basically the key has to lie in reducing the wealth imbalance which exists between the developed and the developing world, but this is likely to prove to be a rather painful adjustment process for citizens in the planet’s richer countries, so policy makers are somewhat relectuntant to accept its inevitability.

— An Unusual But Interesting Argument Which May Help To Understand Why QE2 Is Now Almost Inevitable | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion

Tags: emerging markets economics US euro dollar yen japan europe germany global imbalances trade balance

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Oct
14th

Thu

China wants to impose a deflationary adjustment on the US, just as Germany is doing to Greece. This is not going to happen. Nor would it be in China’s interest if it did. As a creditor, it would enjoy an increase in the real value of its claims on the US. But US deflation would threaten a world slump.

— FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why America is going to win the global currency battle

Tags: economics US China Germany Greece dollar trade balance foreign reserves

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Jun
27th

Sun

China Financial Markets » The RMB and the magic of accounting identities

Tags: economics china US current account trade balance balance of payments

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