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China's economy takes over Japan's | US Post Today.

[US Post Today.] US Post Today. - China's economy takes over Japan's.

July 31, 2010

China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Largest Economy - DailyFinance

[DailyFinance] China is now the world's second-largest economy, having overtaken Japan, a senior Chinese official said.

Posted at 05:07 PM

July 30, 2010

NewsDaily: China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief

[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] In one important respect, however, China is still a shrinking violet: anxious to shield itself from the rough-and-tumble of global markets, it does not permit its currency to be freely exchanged except for purposes of trade and foreign direct investment.

Posted at 02:37 PM

March 27, 2010

Return of China in World Economy? « Mostly Economics

[Mostly Economics] In other words, China’s plentiful and cheap labor is only part of the key to its rapid growth in the last few decades; what appears to have really made the difference, not surprisingly, is its greater economic interaction with the rest of the world.

Posted at 05:04 PM

March 13, 2010

Is US a market economy or China is a market economy ? Bailing out ...

[Work Wasters] China is theoretically a socialist economy, but has abandoned all the traits of a socialist state in order to accommodate its greed for a bigger pie of world trade. China has no regard for its poor farmers and contract labors, nor does it have any regard for the life of innocent newborns as the recent melamine episode has shown.

Posted at 05:05 PM

February 19, 2010

A Warning to Conservatives on the Economy - Rich Lowry - The ...

[The Corner on National Review Online] It is necessary to focus on the issues where Obama is and will be wrong between now and November 2010 – terrorism, U.S. trials, no national security policy to keep Americans safe, taxes, fiscal deficits, America’s huge indebtedness to foreigners, especially China, and many other social and cultural issues.

Posted at 02:34 PM

August 15, 2009

Can China save the world economy?

[Argue With Everyone Political Forums] While there is some debate about the validity of Chinese growth statistics, Beijing's tendency to paper over its many structural problems - like unemployment and poverty (or growing dissent) - cannot rule out that China has continued to grow while many Western economies have all but collapsed and now live off government life-support.

Posted at 05:06 PM

August 07, 2009

Econbrowser: China's Impact on the Global Economy: A Symposium

[Econbrowser] In this paper we assemble a measure of international relative prices to gauge the average amount by which prices in China and the USA differ from the prices of their trading partners. Our estimated weighted average of relative prices for China and the USA are the first to use the significantly revised purchasing power parities embodied in the price data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators.

Posted at 02:33 PM

May 08, 2009

China Vice Premier Says World Economy to Worsen - China * Asia ...

[CNBC Asia Top News and Analysis] In an article that drew on the importance of British-China relations, he said both countries should "take even stronger measures jointly to meet challenges and promote early recovery of both our economies and the global economy".