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April 10, 2006

China
A shortage of labor in coastal China is a good thing

Unless, I suspect, if you are a Hong Kond textile magnate.  I don't entirely agree with Stephen Roach's argument that the US should thank China for its cheap financing so long as the US doesn't save…

May 11, 2006

China
I must be the least dovish of all China doves …

I have been quoted rather extensively in the past few days on Treasury’s foreign exchange report – And in this debate, you are either a dove or a hawk.   Doves (Roach) don’t think that the US sho…

August 3, 2006

China
Trade politics could get nasty fast

The US economy looks to be slowing.   Job creation (and wage growth; also see Leonhardt in the New York Times) wasn’t that impressive even when the economy was growing strongly.   Like many, I was st…

September 20, 2006

Europe
Is it Europe’s turn to rise a housing bubble?

Both Morgan Stanley (at least Eric Chaney) and JP Morgan (in their latest global outlook) now recognize that Europe has emerged as an important engine of global demand growth.    Indeed, the 2005 sur…

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November 21, 2006

Europe
The booms in Spanish and Irish real estate make the US real estate boom look timid

I have outsourced Thanksgiving blogging to Charles Gottlieb of the Center for European policy studies in Brussels.   (Charles.gottlieb at ceps.be)His topic: The Spanish and Irish housing booms (or bu…

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