Movies make money. Brokeback mountain, http://www.brokebackmountainmovie.com/home.html made money…$51M smackaroonies to be exact.
The director, Ang Lee, is Chinese, and was born in Taiwan – the movie showed there. The movie was also shown in Hong Kong.
However, …

Quick, name a 5000 year old country that now ranks as the number 3 consumer of high-end goods.
Did you guess India? Nope…China…you are right?
How many millionaires are there in China?
Merril Lynch says there are 300,000!! That …

Bush said, "It is painful for those who lose jobs."
I’ll say.
"But the fundamental question is, how does a government or society react to that? One way is to throw up protectionist walls. The other …

Milwaukee Mayor, Tom Barrett, wants to do business in China.
The advice he received to open up the Chinese market was to get Ningbo, www.ningbo.com  an auto manufacturing hub south of Shanghai to import large …

How many companies have invested or own American companies?
According to Todd M. Malan, president of the Organization for International Investment, a Washington Lobby for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-based companies…the count is zero, nil, nada, ling, …

There’s a litte guy, Hu Ge. He is no relation to my wife, Hu Xiangtao or Prime Minister Hu. My wife’s not related to the PM either.  There are lots of Hus in China. There are …

The Rust Belt – Detroit, Milwuakee, and St. Louis.
These are where the auto parts makers are and they are hurting. Would $820 million help? Perhaps it would, but who has that kind of money?
China does …

I learned something today about China from Nischal at
http://internetsalsa.blogspot.com/2006/01/dangdang-e-commerce-in-china-part-1.html
What struck me is how similar the mindset of the Chinese is to that of Americans when e-commerce was just taking off.
Americans were skeptical of …

Peter Ueberroth, US Olympic Committee Chairman, is quoted as saying, “The 2008 Olympics will be one of the most significant events for our generation – not only athletically, but culturally, socially and economically as well. It …