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I don’t know if interests you or not.

China Property Collapse Has Begun
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/04/13/china-property-collapse-has-begun/?google_editors_picks=true

[expat_panama]

--and we're up early for another wild ride --yesterday saw NASDAQ poke a five month low only to follow up with a broad surge in increasing volume. "Dip" anyone?

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[expat_panama]

Interesting, tx fer the link.

There’ve been a lot of stories out there about the China-collapse coming any minute now, and it never happens. This is typical when big things happen that we get repeated warnings getting ignored followed by a crash w/ a million I-told-u-so’s.

The big question for us is what do we do when over a billion people go broke and suddenly stop buying U.S. assets?