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...Afraid that this speculative fever is getting out of hand, China's central bank last week raised the interest rate on five-year mortgages to 5.51% and urged lenders to ratchet up the down payment they require from 20% to 30% in the most heated markets. This came just days after the announcement that investors will be hit with a capital-gains tax of 5% if they sell their Shanghai homes within a year of purchasing them. These measures were hardly severe, but Beijing's message to speculators was clear: cool...
...outset, exporting colorful, individually patterned handbags under its own label to stores like Henri Bendel and Barney's in Manhattan, and Harvey Nichols in London. Although diehard fashionistas were quick to discover Ipa-Nima, it's only in the past couple of seasons that the buzz has reached fever pitch, with celebrity endorsement setting the seal...
...What brings on the fever is that while wagging his finger, he bungles the facts. In some cases, he matches blunder-for-blunder the press corps sins that he's cataloging, mirroring precisely the things he likes least about the press. He cherry picks facts to fit his theories about how the press cherry picks facts to fit their theories. He is relentlessly negative about a press corps he claims is relentlessly negative. Unfortunately, it makes for a misleading revisitation of how the press and the President interacted during his tenure, and it undermines many of his larger criticism...
...Enough. The examples can drive the fever to dangerous heights. The point is not that all of Fleischer's facts are wrong, it's that he has too many groaners in a book that sighs: "reporters sometimes want so badly to believe something is true that they ignore facts to the contrary." Or a book that tut-tuts: "the news industry typically doesn't work in such a nuanced, more accurate...
...outset, exporting colorful, individually patterned handbags under its own label to stores like Henri Bendel and Barney's in Manhattan, and Harvey Nichols in London. Although diehard fashionistas were quick to discover Ipa-Nima, it's only in the past couple of seasons that the buzz has reached fever pitch, with celebrity endorsement setting the seal. Despite her success, Yu has no plans to quit Vietnam for the bright lights of the world's fashion capitals, preferring to supervise production in Hanoi. "I really wanted to show the local craftsmen that they could make something like a handbag into...