A brief guide to why China grows so fast - Outside China, people tend to assume that the country's impressive economic growth is due to exports. This notion has always been exaggerated and is now plain false.

MCMLXXXVII_SFW · 2012-05-26T00:24:17.488536+00:00

lol, that's okay. It's day in my time zone, so that makes me look sharper than I really am :)

MCMLXXXVII_SFW · 2012-05-26T00:08:36.641166+00:00

don't the bottom two start at now and go back in time. Hence the "years since take-off" label?

What do you mean? Suppose "take off" was '82, for example. The more years that have passed since "take off", the closer you get to present-day.

MCMLXXXVII_SFW · 2012-05-25T23:54:20.165578+00:00

hey show domestic consumption is now the main driver of the economy.

...what are you talking about? The graph shows that private consumption is DOWN, and that investment from other countries is the driver. As they said:

China grows thanks to high levels of investment...The corollary of this is low levels of private consumption.

usernameissomething · 2012-05-25T23:16:41.277346+00:00

Wait...what's reason #1? All I see is a tattooed naked woman on a bed holding up a sign that says "Hi Coy x"

MCMLXXXVII_SFW · 2012-05-25T23:05:31.581007+00:00

Some argue that this must lead to imbalances that one day will send China's economy off a cliff. We disagree.

...Why? Seems like an odd place to end the article.

IrritableOwlSyndrome · 2012-05-25T06:27:05.406796+00:00

You know what's weird? 184 comments in, nobody here has mentioned a single rapper that actually took the bait and name-dropped Big Macs 2004-5.

So I guess the campaign was a flop?

mollymule · 1 day

Are you trying to use more news sources I've never heard of?

You've never heard of right-wing nut-job conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi? I figured the "news" his people are responsible for was better known than that.

mollymule · 2 days

Believing that scumbag is an American Citizen is the real fucking conspiracy theory. Fucking little bitch.

Thanks. Good to see you become shrill and unhinged about this ;)

Just out of curiosity, given that he's clearly entitled to American citizenship due to the nationality of his mother, why do you even give a shit where he happened to be born? I'm guessing you'll say something like it shows he "lied", and spin it off into an abstract moral issue of some kind. But what actual difference does it make to you?

mollymule · 2 days

Their conversation was praising the fact that Obama had been elected President, the Fraud of the Ambassador was congratulating the United States and spoke of the Kenyan people as being proud that a Kenyan was elected President. His birthplace was to be a historic site.

So basically, you're saying that a comedy morning radio show insinuated Obama was born in Kenya, and the ambassdor, whose English appears to be spotty at best, mumbled something that generally came across as affirmative before going on about Obama's identically-named father and paternal grandparents?

I notice the fraud of an Ambassador has also said that wasn't his intention at all, and completely denied that Obama was born in Kenya.

And let me guess...you unquestioningly swallow his credentials...and simultaneously reject his denial of what you're saying as a dirty lie from someone who can't be trusted?

You can reach those moon landing guys at the same address as the guys who orchestrated Obama's fake citizenship all those years ago. And you can find where they are easily seeing as they so totally exist, right?

mollymule · 2 days

I will be sure to write to Peter Ogego and tell him that he is a fraud and is not the Ambassador to Kenya as said so by a fellow redditor.

Yes, please do. While you're at it, please be sure to write to the President of the United States and tell him that he's a fraud as said so by yet another guy from reddit, a guy from Kenya and a radio show, too. Also include a CC to the Zionist conspiracists and the guys that faked the moon landing.

mollymule · 2 days

Maybe you're right. Why groundlessly demand to see credentials proving that he really is who he says he is, when we can just happily accept his authenticity at face value? I see no reason for documented proof of his identity.

...wait a second...doesn't that completely contradict your argument as to why we need to see obama's birth certificate?

On a serious note- yes, I am saying he's a fraud. He isn't the "ambassador of Kenya", and neither you nor he can produce credible evidence that he is.

mollymule · 2 days

Are you saying the Kenyan Ambassador didn't make those comments, and that man on the tape is a fraud?

Yes. I demand to see his birth certificate.

bbatsell · 6 days

Also don’t believe anyone that says I have sex with animals. And if there’s a photo of me doing it with an animal - I’m not saying one exists, I’m just saying, if one surfaces - it’s a fake. Look at the shadow. Why would it be in front of the giraffe if the sun is behind the jeep?

This is the kind of thing that makes me remember why I'm going to miss him so much as a writer.

ethicalking · 7 days

If true, yet another example of how the law in question is completely and totally insane.

Do you have a link to this specific language? The writers of the law specifically said it wasn't intended to protect someone in Zimmerman's situation, so apparently even they don't agree with that interpretation.

paburon · 7 days

The special ingredient had better be pretty amazing, because i dont see how else they can justify charging more than brand-name cola. As far as taste goes I think it's pretty second rate compared to coke or Pepsi. They did a good job making it taste sweet with 0 calories, but that's about all it's got going for it.

meltdownup · 7 days

There is a special place in hell for people like you.

You mean a special Hell-Lite for people that do completely trivial shit of next to no consequence?

ethicalking · 7 days

So to recap: Zimmerman was most certainly losing the fight with his pursuant when he shot him.

Now we just have to determine who started it- The pursuer, or the pursuant.

emannigol · 8 days

I was assuming they would only offer to buy bonds purchased before a given date that had higher yields, or say make the offer after an auction and then close it before they're available again. But yeah if you could just buy them and resell immediately that would be ridiculous.g

emannigol · 8 days

No, it's an effective negative interest rate because the BoJ would be offering them more than they're worth just to take them off their hands, meaning they'd be losing money by holding onto them. But if a private citizen bought bonds they would still see interest on them (albeit very little).

emannigol · 8 days

I think you're misunderstanding lorpius_prime's comment. His interpretation seems to be entirely congruent with your own. He's referring to the "failure" of trying to buy the bonds back.

emannigol · 8 days

? How does this news support his argument that Japan can't sustain it's debt? This article is about how they can't stop people from buying their debt even if they try.

Sorry if you were being sarcastic, but it's really hard to tell with some people.

emannigol · 8 days

And at the same time keep the rates reasonably high for private buyers (who they wouldn't be offering buyouts to). Good way to keep rates two-tiered.

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