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...inflation - their main concern at the time of the Beijing Olympics in August - is gone. At a high-powered international financial conference in Beijing over the weekend, a senior People's Bank of China official acknowledged to TIME that "if anything, we now need to fight against falling demand and possibly even falling prices." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...carrier. And let’s not forget the Ukrainian cargo ship, the Faina, which was captured in September while carrying $30 million of weapons and tanks. According to reports, the Faina’s owners have haggled the pirates down to $8 million in ransom from the original demand of $35 million—quite a steal...
...Beijing, the dividends from recycling are instant: hard cash for discarded cardboard, paper and plastic bottles, paid by the junk men who trawl the streets on tricycles each morning, yelling "Collecting scrap! Collecting scrap!" So fierce is the demand that a bag of trash rarely makes it to the curb before someone is poking through it in search of recyclables...
...Just as China's economic boom fueled a roaring demand for the raw materials of much of Asia and Africa, so has it spurred an insatiable appetite for recyclable scrap paper, plastic and metals. In recent years, amazing stories have emerged around the world about stolen manhole covers, junk haulers making healthy salaries, and coins being melted down because their value as scrap, with China the big buyer, exceeded their face value. China's scrap trade has lifted the fortunes of both the very wealthy - such as Nine Dragons Paper CEO Zhang Yin, whose recycled-paper manufacturing company made...
...Slowing consumer demand in America and Europe has cut output at Chinese factories - although China's exports grew at an annual rate of 19% in October, some economists believe that could fall below 10% by the end of the year because of lower Christmas-season orders for products like electronics. And China's notoriously thrifty consumers haven't made up for the drop in foreign demand. Amid the global turmoil, their expectations for rising incomes are at the lowest level recorded in years. All of that threatens to turn Dongxiaokou from the epicenter of a bustling recycling economy into...