Archive for May, 2017
Private equity hubris is causing a lot of losses In a huge and well documented article on Private Equity in Wikipedia, the very last topic with just one sentence says the following: Cognitive bias Private equity decision-making has been shown to suffer from cognitive biases such as illusion of control and overconfidence. Lets look at how […]
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Shanghai is amazing. A city of 24 Million with no ghettos. Imagine that. Many of you reading this will have been to or are in Shanghai as it is such a dynamic place. It is the world’s 8th largest urban area. It also has some of the world’s most expensive housing. 24 Million live in […]
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The picture above makes me feel China is the factory for the world… Looking at the top ten container ports below shows even more. Did you know that 7 out of the top 10 container ports in the world are in China? Shanghai, CHINA Singapore Shenzhen, CHINA Ningbo, CHINA Hong Kong (SAR), CHINA […]
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The Weforum put up this cool graphic/map.. The article is worth reading as well as it talks about how growth in India and China will cause them to pass the Western countries in a short time. I was surprised to see that Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany together do not match China, and China […]
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Let’s first read this from Forbes and Michael Zakkour: China’s middle-class population is projected to exceed 600 million by 2022, or nearly twice the size of the entire U.S. population. Last year, China surpassed the U.S. as the world’s largest retail market, with spending topping U.S. $4.84 trillion. $4.84Trillion in retail. If you are not […]
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