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World’s Factory Shutting Down: Getting Out of China With Your Balls Intact Won’t Be Easy

China’s factories are cutting back and shutting down. Foreign manufacturers have been leaving China and shutting down operations there, but it hasn’t been easy. As Apple’s Tim Cook can attest, getting out of China with your balls intact is a … Continue reading

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Can a Manufacturing Company Survive in the US Today?

Although most of the world’s valuable companies are headquartered in the US, most of the world’s manufacturing is done overseas. Here is a look at the most valuable companies: More on world’s most valuable companies The USA was once the … Continue reading

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China’s Anxious Future: Counting Off

The days of nearly unlimited foreign direct investment (FDI) money flowing into China from all parts of the world are over. That’s not an exaggeration. By the end of 2024, the level of FDI into China had fallen 99 percent … Continue reading

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Recession Panicans Praying for Pain

An economy is an emotional animal. If enough voices damp down an economy with rebounding echoes of doom and panic, the economy may react — no matter what the underlying facts may be. An entire breed of media influencers base … Continue reading

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China’s Spiral of Doom: Kyle Bass Comments

Even before the Trump tariffs, China was entering a “doom loop.” But now — despite all the propaganda — China’s economic spiral is downward. According to Kyle Bass, the US has massive leverage on China’s future. “So the Chinese government … Continue reading

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China’s Limited Tool Set: Monkey See Monkey Do

China’s Innovation Problem Disruptive innovation occurs in an open, spontaneous environment — like natural evolution. But Communist China has a rigid, planned economy. A true innovative thinker in Xi’s China is more likely to be punished or purged, than to … Continue reading

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Millionaires Getting the “H” Out of These Countries

There are some countries that you just have to get out of. Browse the list below giving the number of fleeing millionaires and their primary reasons for getting out of their native land. Rank Country Millionaires Lost Key Issues 1 … Continue reading

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China’s Economy 60% Smaller Than Reported?

The communist nation’s economy is in dire straits.  The shutdowns during the covid pandemic triggered a deflationary spiral that they have not been able to recover from.  Foreign investments in China have dropped over 77% since 2022.  The country suffered … Continue reading

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Like Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany, Wealthy Chinese Run from Communist China: How They Move Their Money

According to Bloomberg and the Institute of International Finance, over $150 billion in capital quietly exited China in 2024 alone. Despite tight rules from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), wealthy individuals, private companies, and underground banks continue to exploit regulatory … Continue reading

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China Losing its Grip; Panics in Game of Chicken

China’s factories need US materials. Electronics factories need US chips, and Chinese fabric and plastics factories need US ethane and propane. China cannot make its shoes, its clothing, its toys, its EVs, and a lot of other crucial export items, … Continue reading

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Asia Gets Hammered: Tariffs — Magnum Force

The self-proclaimed wise men of the world are twitching wildly, grinding their teeth and slobbering from the mouth over the shock and awe tariffs being unleashed from Washington DC. The chart shows where the maximum impact of the tariffs is … Continue reading

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Tariff Wars: This is Real High Stakes Poker!

The tariff wars offer us windows into the workings of the global economic system while also offering us windows into the minds of various world leaders. To be truthful, the mind of Donald J. Trump is the only one we … Continue reading

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17 Years Whistling Past the Graveyard and Counting

China would like to go back to its pre-2008 years of export boom with no worries and an endless flow of foreign hard cash. Those were the days without limits for the Middle Kingdom. After the global deflation hit in … Continue reading

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Top 10 Global Innovators

The most innovative nations tend to be small, relatively homogeneous nations. Most of the top 10 innovators are in Europe, none are in Africa or South America. China steals most of its innovations, something that is overlooked by the number … Continue reading

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Unwrapping the Mystery: Is China the New Russia?

In 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Perhaps Churchill was right in describing the country of Russia. The country of Russia is a complexity that far exceeds the powers of the … Continue reading

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US Cost of Living by State: Why Some States are Losing People So Fast and Some are Growing

When contemplating raising a family of four in the US, one should first compare the costs of living between the 50 states. Each US state has its own economic conditions — wage levels, taxes, costs of basic goods and services, … Continue reading

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China is Desperate and May Do Something Rash

China is not going green. China is going rogue. But the CCP needs the rest of the world to go fully green so that it can go fully rogue. The CCP Was Counting on a Pushover President Harris in 2025 … Continue reading

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Annexing Canada: The Bill Ready for Trump’s Signature

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and directed, whenever notice shall be deposited in the Department of … Continue reading

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Is the China Stimulus Flogging a Dead Horse?

If Chinese population statistics are erroneous, the current CCP efforts to stimulate China’s economy out of failure mode, may be doomed to collapse. China has been the world’s factory for decades now, but if the population — particularly the working … Continue reading

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