Monday, May 26, 2008

Business Week, June 2, 2008 and other tidbits

Page 021: Blogging 101 $2.50 meal of tangerine chicken, fried rice, and stir-fried veggies is No. 1 in their taste test. Harvard University economist and blogger Gregory Mankiew speculates that it is only a matter of time before People magazine starts an annual superstar economists issue.

Blogs are one of the do-it-yourself tools to emerge on the Internet, making everyone a potential publisher.

Amazon.com and Apple took the top two spots:

China Mobile - Tele. Revenue 45,863 millions
Google - Net - Revenue 18,116 millions

Page 068: The metal's price has vaulted from $662 an ounce to about $905 over the past 12 months.- a 37% jump - compared with a loss of 6% for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Gold is up roughly 150% in the past five years.

Page 074: H & M's new Shanghai store, one of 193 opened last year.

Even the callous monopolist, Google has more money than it knows what to do with.

ATLANTIC magazine,June 2008 issue has a special article about China for reference.

Washington Post,May 25, 2008 Business page F1: Thinking to buy or sell? Sit tight? Listen to gossip? Behavioral Economics shows that when it comes to investing, people aren't that smart. My comment: Economics ia an inexact science.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a blogger to keep readers informed about Sino-American economics as my service to YOU. May 26, 2008

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