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发帖数: 27535 | 1 http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/worlds-best-tourists-026
8. Chinese
Identifying travel feature: Independent travel is still a rarity for Chinese
vacationers. Most tour in organized groups, being bellowed at by a guide
with a megaphone standing less than a meter away.
Commendable habits: Ready, willing and very able to eat anything you put in
front of them … and appreciate it like a local.
Oh, yes, and money. While tourism is suffering in the global economic
downturn, the Chinese are still... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 2
He only sealed the deal. US economy was already in a downturn before that.
911 killed any chance of normal recovery, which lead to the relaxed money
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发帖数: 4825 | 3 China Property Prices Decline
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455390457710531
By OWEN FLETCHER And ESTHER FUNG
BEIJING—Average property prices in Chinese cities saw a second consecutive
monthly drop in November, according to government data released Sunday, in a
further sign that Beijing's two-year tightening campaign to cool the red-
hot property market is having an impact.
Data on 70 Chinese cities released by the National Bureau of Statistics and
analyzed by The Wall Street Jo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 4 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/opinion/krugman-will-china-br
Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge
construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all
the classic signs of a bubble. There was rapid growth in credit — with much
of that growth taking place not through traditional banking but rather
through unregulated “shadow banking” neither subject to government
supervision nor backed by government guarantees. Now the bubble is bursting
— an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3875 | 5 Chinese Students Pushed to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools
2011-12-20 21:00:01.0 GMT
By Daniel Golden
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Haiying Wu’s family in Shandong
Province wasn’t religious. After a born-again Texan teaching
English in China advised her that Christian schools in the U.S.
are safe and academically strong, she enrolled at Ben Lippen
High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
Ben Lippen required her to attend church and chapel, take
Bible class, and join a Bible study group. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 666 | 7 常家蹲还是重复他的念咒一般的老生常谈，根本不值一提。
可读是读者的评论。
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/29/the_coming_col
MESS_MEDIA
9:18 PM ET
December 29, 2011
Yeah, I was wrong when I
Yeah, I was wrong when I predicted that the world would end on May 21, 2011.
It should end on October 21.
-Harold Camping
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JOESMITHII
2:44 AM ET
December 30, 2011
I guess, sooner or later,
I guess, sooner or later, Gordon will get used to admitting wrong
predictions. Fortunately, 2012 is around the corner, we don't need to wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 978 | 8 Chinese economic reform and development: achievements, emerging challenges
and unfinished tasks
Jane Golley and Ligang Song
The economic transformation that has taken place in China since the late
1970s is now regarded as one of the most significant social changes in human
history. Within just three decades, China has succeeded in transforming
itself from a centrally-planned closed economy into one of the world’s most
dynamic and globally-integrated market economies. The dynamics unleashed by
De... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 9 美国已经开始对科技研发杀鸡取卵了 2012-02-22 11:50:12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/kennedy-s
Kennedy Space Center at 50: A spaceport in transition
by Brian Vastag, The Washington Post, 20 February 2012
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — A figurative “for rent” sign hangs on the front
gate of John F. Kennedy Space Center.
Among the facilities available: A space shuttle launchpad, slightly used; a
giant crawler for moving rockets, still servicable; two enormous mobile
launch platforms; two space... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14642 | 10 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230463640457728910
India's high growth rates of the past decade are slipping away, but you
wouldn't know it from the way Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee keeps
spending. On Friday his budget offered nothing in the way of pro-growth
reforms, but continued to enlarge welfare spending. The only way Delhi can
keep this up is by gouging taxpayers.
Both the stock and bond markets were hoping for better, and immediately gave
the budget a thumbs down. Growth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 11 快速改变中的世界能源格局 2012-03-22 19:04:18
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9161008/
North America has the potential to be energy world's next Middle East
by Richard Blackden, The Telegraph, 22 Mar 2012
North America's energy sector has the potential to drive a "remarkable
resurgence" that could see the Continent become the new Middle East in
shaping the global supply of gas and oil, a new report has claimed.
Deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, tapping shale deposits for ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 27100 | 12 China's Gravity-Defying Economy: How Hard Will It Fall?
As China's high-octane economy shifts into lower gear, virtually everyone
agrees that the double-digit, super-charged boom years are drawing to a
close. Speculation over the possibility of a so-called "hard landing" for
the country flourishes with each boom and bust cycle, only to die down as
China's growth revs up again. This time, however, both external and internal
factors -- including global conditions, domestic politics and financial
t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 13 The Denver Post is reporting today that gun sales in Colorado have spiked 41
percent since the shooting at the Century 16 theater in Aurora last Friday.
And the Colorado Bureau of Investigation reports that its approval of
background checks for new firearms purchasers jumped 43 percent within the
last four days.
In spite of claims by high profile news media personalities such as Piers
Morgan and politicians such as U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., that the
nation's "lax gun laws" cause such m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1696 | 14 这篇文章总结说，这13个机构的公信力从十年前的72%下降到现在的56%。大媒体下降地
更厉害。这个做调查的机构叫Pew Research Center，是很知名的调查研究非盈利机构
。就是他们的调查，发现中国人对国家的满意度全球高居前列，超过80%的中国人满意
中国政府的表现。
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/pew-believability-d
For the second time in a decade, the believability ratings for major news
organizations have suffered broad-based declines. In the new survey,
positive believability ratings have fallen significantly for nine of 13 news
organizations tested. This follows a similar downturn in positive
believabil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17328 | 15 经济是最大的问题。经济发展是TG唯一的执政基础。老百姓自改革开放以来没有经历过
大的economy downturn。 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 16 If I were Xi Jinping, I would feel very bad about the high possibility that
major economic downturn and social unrest would occur during my terms. |
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发帖数: 30882 | 17 这个做法不太专业，会引起西方的怀疑的。
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151326#.UHSQji
Gordon Chang, Who Predicted Collapse by 2012, Wants Extension
Gordon Chang, who predicted China's fall by 2011, expects it to fall this
year.He explained his reasoning in Foreign Policy Magazine.
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By Amiel Ungar
First Publish: 1/2/2012, 11:38 PM
Gordon Chang
Wikipedia
President Harry Truman once remarked that he would prefer one-armed
economists because they could not give him the on the one hand and o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2578 | 18 Recession Left Baby Bust as U.S. Births Lowest Since 1920
By Frank Bass - Nov 30, 2012 12:01 AM ET.
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The U.S. birth rate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women of childbearing age,
according to preliminary numbers. That’s down by almost half from a peak of
122.7 in 1957 during the postwar baby boom.
The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low last year, driven by a decline in
the number of babies born to immigrant women, who hav... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 19 WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the
recession and the sluggish recovery that followed. But the last half-decade
has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families
, starkly widening the already large gulf in wealth between non-Hispanic
white Americans and most minority groups, according to a new study from the
Urban Institute.
“It was already dismal,” Darrick Hamilton, a professor at the New School
in New York, said of the wealth gap ... 阅读全帖 |
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l**t
发帖数: 6971 | 21 中国的中产相对美国有三个“优势”：
第一，只生一个孩子。所以在孩子身上的花销少。
第二，只养一辆车，还不是天天开。所以虽然车子比美国贵一倍，汽油也贵，但是花销
并不比美国高。
第三，没见过downturn。大家就是把近20年的发展线性外插值作为人生规划，所以都很
乐观。
我就搞不懂，除了大使馆派来骗人海归的五毛，有什么脑子正常的人，会认为在北京呼
吸着著名的雾霾，上下班挤着这两天出了名的地铁，生活水平比美国高。 |
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发帖数: 279 | 22 Pre-Columbian Americans: (pdf) Spreading from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego,
America's first immigrants cultivated maize, developed sophisticated
calendars and used zeros, built temples and pyramids without the use of
wheels, but were helpless against the disease and weapons of the Europeans.
Chart: 16th & 17th Century European Colonizing Efforts (pdf)-Five European
nations (Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, France, and England) played
major roles in opening up the New World to priests, treasure-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2693 | 23 Although wealth is more highly concentrated in the U.S., the median (50th
percentile) worker has essentially the same purchasing power in each nation.
In terms of purchasing power parity, the most recent statistics from the
IMF has Canada (US $35,494) lower than that in the United States (US $43,444
).[25]
In the late 1990s, the GDP gap widened. In this period, GDP increased by 5%
annually in the United States, and 2% in Canada. Earlier, it had been
narrowing between 1961 and 1995. However, it w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2883 | 24 我刚才去OCA的facebook留言请他们注意天天受到的非法威胁。这件事应该被尽可能地
公之于众，才能够最大限度地保护我们的领头人和华人社区。因为一旦他们发现这个威
胁很管用，就会下一次照样使用同样手段。而且在危机时刻出于种种目的把威胁变成行
动。只有公众关注和监督，才会保证我们的安全和人权。
OCA, I can hardly express my gratitude and appreciation of your continued
action and leadership! Hope the Chinese community would be encouraged by you
, unite and stand high again. I would also bring your attention to an
incident happened to one of the Nov. 9 Rally organizers, in which he was
advised by Mr. Woo of 80-20 that the FBI was watching him,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3140 | 25 马里兰比例最高，密西西比最少
There were approximately 53,000 more millionaire households in the U.S. last
year than in 2012, according to Phoenix, a market research firm based in
Rhinebeck, N.Y. About 6.15 million millionaire households are spread across
the U.S., according to the report. That means 1 in every 20 households in
the U.S. has more than $1 million in investable assets. Those figures don’t
include the value of real estate.
Large movements for many states made the latest millionaire rankings unusua... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3530 | 26 Why Costco Is Crushing Walmart-Owned Sam's Club
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/16/sams-club-vs-costco_n_
Sam’s Club, the Walmart-owned purveyor of bulk toilet paper and ketchup,
had a terrible last few months, the company announced Thursday. Meanwhile
its competitor Costco is doing just fine.
Sales at Sam's Club stores open for a year or more fell 0.5 percent from a
year ago in the just-ended fiscal first quarter, the company announced
Thursday. The poor results come a few months after th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 27 China Widens Lead as World’s Largest Manufacturer
by David Sims | March 14th, 2013
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Credit: Constantine.nicky
Credit: Constantine.nicky
Although China overtook the U.S. as the world’s largest manufacturing
nation in 2010, the production margin between the two countries has been
razor-thin. However, new data indicates that China recently widened its lead
as the top global producer.
Related Stories
Can U.S. Manufacturing Outcompe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2301 | 28 看不过去了，这里的职业五毛真是太下贱了，
你能不能稍微要点脸，300年前房产税多少？
300年前有美国么？
有据可查的是1975-2014 约40年美国平均房价增值，
其中经过几次房地产大downturn，最低的少数几个
中西部州也有3.5%以上，绝大多数州在4以上， 加州6.77%
NY是5.57% |
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发帖数: 3030 | 29 It is a good system to start. Hopefully it won't be the first thing to go if
economy takes a downturn.
It's not 100% coverage for general public. If somebody claims that, he or
she is either bragging, or abusing the system, or not one of the general
public. |
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发帖数: 2001 | 30 The 144 China-based stocks with primary listings on major U.S. exchanges
have erased nearly $40 billion in paper wealth since the Shanghai Composite
index peaked on June 12. It's an enormous destruction of wealth that in
effect wipes out the market value of a company the size of cruise ship
operator Carnival.
The Shanghai composite index' losses are only getting worse. The much-
watched measure of Chinese stocks fell 8.5% in overnight trading Monday. The
index has dropped more than 27% since hit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 446 | 31 mrsdragoness
07-16-2003, 03:28 PM
UM....First off.... Tradewiz... HI and Welcome to PTO. :wave:
Second, in answer to your question, Prison rape is on the downturn. My best
advice is to tell your loved one to stay low, watch his back and keep his
business to himself. He shouldn't come off macho....but he should never show
weakness either. Although rape does happen, it isn't as often as the media
would like us to think it is.
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发帖数: 38600 | 32 他们是小鱼小虾。
The richest 62 people on the planet now own more wealth than half the world
’s population.
America is the richest, and most unequal, country
http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/
In a way, Bernie Sanders and the Tea Party are different expressions of the
same phenomenon. People disagree over the causes and the proper fixes, but
they can find common ground in the sense that things are wrong, that power
and wealth are too concentrated, and that most of the country will ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1119 | 33 New York Post
METRO
FacebookTwitterGoogleWhatsAppEmailCopy
Biased DA, city scapegoat the Asian-American community
ByShirley Ng
February 21, 2016|7:01am
Officer Peter Liang and District Attorney Ken ThompsonPhoto: Gregory P.
Mango (2)
The justice system has always failed Asian-Americans.
We remember all too well the brutal 1982 slaying of Vincent Chin — a 27-
year-old Chinese-American man killed near Detroit by two thugs who believed
he was Japanese and thus responsible for Motown’s downturn. His... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9770 | 34 http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20160330/c30mag-hedgefund1/dual/
The Fall of China’s Hedge Fund King
By ALEX W. PALMER March 30, 2016
中国“私募一哥”的覆灭
ALEX W. PALMER 2016年3月30日
At 10:33 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1 of last year, the highway police in Ningbo,
an industrial city on China’s eastern coast, posted a seemingly innocuous
message to their official microblog. “Due to sudden traffic control,” the
message read, “all the entrances and exits of the G15 Expressway at
Hangzhou Bay Bridge have been closed.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7349 | 35 The Brics economies have been hit by falling global demand and lower
commodity prices, while some have faced corruption scandals.
Brazil and Russia are both in recession, and Brazil on some counts is
suffering its worst downturn since the 1930s.
South Africa narrowly avoided a recession last month, while China is going
through its slowest economic growth in 25 years. |
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发帖数: 4400 | 36 通篇把中国形容为thief, spies. 极尽煽动之能事。红脖看了今天就想砍两个华人。你
觉得她看你会有Any difference? 她会管你干啥的。共和民主党都讨厌中国，区别就是
民主党还讲点面子上的政治正确。她会care面子上的political correctness? 我的话
不变，支持川普的华人所有人在未来一个时刻都会后悔，早晚而已
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/11/opinions/trump-crackdown-china-tenney/index.html
By selecting Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as US Ambassador to China,
President-elect Donald Trump chose a man who Chinese President Xi Jinping
considers a "friend." But as a friend, Branstad will be the messenger to
deliver the hard truth that th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 37 形势比人强
现在预测4年后的事情太早
经济周期downturn来了
再nb的总统也很难连任 |
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发帖数: 1 | 38 撸剩啊诺特尔是什么时候的事？
2000年downturn后就不行了吧 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 39 These Will Be the World's Top Economies in 2020 By Julia Hawley | Updated
June 27, 2016 — 11:07 AM EDT
By the year 2020, a great shift will have occurred in the worldwide balance
of economic power. Analysts predict emerging market economies will become
some of the most important economic forces, and China will take the top spot
in the list of the world’s largest economies by gross domestic product (
GDP), both outright and measured in terms of purchasing power parity.
The Current Top Economies o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4283 | 40 I am glad that you mentioned 1929, so contrary to what you believe, the
federal government had a LOT to do with the 1929 downturn, they caused it
and it's their policy that prevented the economy from fully recovered for
over a decade. Very much like what we in right now, only difference is that
we are in a way bigger trouble than 1929 ...
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发帖数: 33885 | 41 现在被狼脯冷落了，就差等着听到这句狼脯语录：you are fired!
这个事情真不好说。是狼脯对中国怂了呢？还是中国暗地里跪了呢？
不过，反华急先锋Peter Navarro现在是自己先吃亏，碰到了狼脯的冷屁股。
真是伴君如伴虎啊。
特别是像狼脯这样的有神经病的领导。
不是有句话，犯我中华者，虽远必诛吗？
就算你是美国洋鬼子，攻击中国的话都要小心点。
不要搬起石头砸自己的脚。
Back in late February, we noted something that few at the time noticed:
Trump had just promoted "populist" trade-hawk Peter Navarro to the rank of
assistant to the president. What happened shortly thereafter shook the
administration, as first Gary Cohn resigned in very short order, and just
days later Trump... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3030 | 42 Imagine if the yellow dump kissers had their way and completely take away
Obama care. WSN would fall like leaves whenever there is a economic downturn.
Just look at who those yellow dump kissers are and why they had so many
zombie followers on Huaren. The sad thing is, those zombies might also breed
pure Chinese American little zombies and decrease the average IQ and EQ of
ABC. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 43 Trump's tariffs will hurt his support base most. All the blue collar people
who still make things and grow things in America will feel the blowback the
hardest. These people have little savings and a lot of debt that needs to be
paid every monthly. Any small downturn in their financial situation is a
crisis. |
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发帖数: 1090 | 44
我觉的土鳖现在是慢慢进入downturn了，因为住房成本的攀升和生活成本的升高，消费
始终没有升级。如果内需没有升级，出口再不震，这种制造业也支撑不了，也会跟着下降 |
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发帖数: 18158 | 45 https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/national-debt-under-trump-
rises-to-21-7-trillion
Trump's Debt
IRWIN M. STELZER
5 MIN READ
Trump said he would erase America's debt in 8 years. It's now bigger than
ever.
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to get rid of the entire national debt
“over a period of eight years.” When this promise was made, the national
debt stood at $19 trillion; it has since risen to $21.7 trillion. In the
fiscal year ending September 30, it grew by $779 billion, u... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2469 | 46 China will be willing to accept an economic downturn to hurt Trump and win a
better trade deal
Take the world |
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发帖数: 1709 | 47 11 Reasons Why So Many Experts Believe That A US Economic Crisis Is Imminent
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-20/11-reasons-why-so-many-experts-
believe-us-economic-crisis-imminent
Well, the following are 11 reasons why so many experts now believe that a U.
S. economic crisis is imminent…
#1 Last week, the “spread between the U.S. 2-year and 10-year yields”
turned negative for the very first time in 12 years. An inversion of the
yield curve has occurred prior to every single U.S. recessio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 48 exactly， 尤其是在downturn的时候
连洗脚都明白的道理
洗脚换工作是迫不得已 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 49 We are in unprecedented times, and all that truly matters to avoid a
catastrophic economic downturn is to keep the Asset Bubbles inflated, and
Central Banks, Trump and Xi know it, so don't sweat it. |
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发帖数: 1709 | 50 We are in unprecedented times, and all that truly matters to avoid a
catastrophic economic downturn is to keep the Asset Bubbles inflated, and
Central Banks, Trump and Xi know it, so don't sweat it. |
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