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...biggest p.r. challenges may be behind it. "People are smart; they will Google anything and make up their own mind," says Borda of Macro Meats. "It just needs to do its time." Australus may not be the new beef yet, but Borda and others in the business hope demand will keep growing by leaps and bounds...
...It’s interesting because, at least in the gay community, we always talk about the potential for closeted athletes...so it seems like there would be some good demand for an event like this,” Collins, the event’s sponsor, said...
...turnaround. China sits in the middle of an increasingly important trading system within Asia. Countries like Japan, South Korea and Indonesia export capital goods, components and raw materials to China, where they are used to manufacture final products for shipment to the West. This network broke down as demand in the U.S. and Europe shriveled, but economists say China's stimulus program might be filling in some of the lost sales. Programs to spur domestic consumer spending in China have boosted purchases of items like appliances and automobiles. The success of the stimulus program, economists say, may be rejuvenating intra...
...chief concerns is that over-reliance on government spending for growth will undermine a Chinese economic goal: boosting consumer spending to achieve a more balanced economy, one that is less dependent upon consumer demand from the U.S. and Europe for growth. "The biggest problem with the state-centric growth model is it does not put much income into the pockets of the average Chinese and therefore it does not raise consumption," says Huang. "A year or two from now, suppose that the U.S. does not resume its previous pace of consumption -which is very likely- then the huge state-sector...
...SOEs in heavy industries like steelmaking increase production at a time when ordinary market demand is falling, they could be driven to dump their products cheaply abroad when government spending stops. This could touch off protectionism in other countries, which would ultimately harm China, says Michael Pettis, a professor of finance at Peking University...