By: Chip_Hanlon
Stop it! Please just stop.
I saw it yet again yesterday: another commentator talked about how China ’s economy should keep chugging along through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing , particularly its appetite for commodities due to its infrastructure needs ahead of that event. Sometimes I hear it said that the trend might last […]

The Bank for International Settlements, the world’s most prestigious financial body, has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fuelled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy more vulnerable to another 1930s-style slump than generally understood.

“Virtually nobody foresaw the Great Depression of the 1930s, or the crises which affected Japan and southeast Asia […]

SHENZHEN, China’s first special economic zone which neighbors Hong Kong, now has the country’s highest housing prices.
It was reported the average housing price of the city has reached 14,223 yuan (US$1,850) a square meter while the average price in the city’s four major districts has surpassed 20,000 yuan.
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INVESTORS seeking the cheapest property stocks are buying in Japan, Germany and China after a two-year tumble in shares of United States home builders.
Japanese land prices are rising for the first time in 16 years, yet shares of developers trade at less than a third the global average, according to UBS AG.
The start of real-estate […]

Traditional home sells for £7.1m in part of the city once shunned by rich
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Traditional home sells for £7.1m in part of the city once shunned by rich
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