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...you’ll probably ace that final. Dream: The wind is whipping around your cold, questionably dressed self as you trudge along forever and ever, never seeming to reach your final destination. Prediction: Best case scenario: shuttle of shame. What will probably happen: the shuttle won’t come in time, and you’ll have to make the walk of shame from the quad, themed outfit and all. Oh, and you’ll probably run into your professor on the way. Dream...
...ultimately, the whole point of horoscopes is that you don’t really know what will happen, it’s the process of unwrapping the mystery that is exciting. I know next year is supposed to be strong for Tauri. Maybe that means I’ll actually finish my thesis. Or, hell, even graduate! If it’s not guaranteed, at least it might be written in the stars...
...starting in the mid-1990s, and was eclipsed by the trade imbalance with China in 2000 (in September the U.S. trade deficit with Japan was $4.1 billion, compared to $22.1 billion with China). The issue was never resolved, but it ceased to seem so important. Could that happen with China...
...hard to tell if the skeptics are right. China is like the proverbial elephant being described by blind men: anyone can say anything depending on which part they happen to be touching. Jim O'Neill, head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, is dismissive of the doubters. "I've seen similar sorts of stories about 20 times this year," O'Neill said last week during an interview on Bloomberg TV. "These are generally written by people that obviously just don't follow closely or study China." He maintained that, if anything, China's economic strength is being underestimated...
...need a "major tightening" right away, "risks of asset price bubbles and misallocation of resources in the face of high liquidity need to be mitigated." Kuijs concluded that "the overall monetary stance will have to be tightened eventually." Beijing's big test is to make sure that doesn't happen too early - or too late...