Word: socialist
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...socialist tailgates unite
...past, Beijing might have responded by cracking down and throwing a few people in jail for loan sharking. That hasn't happened for the simple reason that the gray-market provides an efficient means of capital allocation in ways the country's socialist-era financial system cannot. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, discovered this recently when it started monitoring gray-market capital flows in Zhejiang. Expecting to find shadow bankers charging exorbitant rates, they instead discovered that underground interest rates were only marginally higher than what banks offer and repayment terms were better. This steady source...
...China's socialist-era financial system continues to make the transition to capitalism, shadow bankers may prove to be less of a threat to the system and more of an ally. The CBRC "at first treated us like ugly babies," says Wang Zhentao, vice chairman of the new investment company Zhong Rui. "Now we're growing up." The sooner the rest of the country's beleaguered banking system follows suit, the better...
...Being out here is the start to rebuilding the movements against Bush and the war in Iraq,” said Daniel DiMaggio ’04, a former member of the Harvard Socialist Alternative...
...would have come out if Kerry won, too. I’m here to meet other people who are also interested in radical ideas,” said Hank R. Gonzalez, ’06, treasurer of the Socialist Alternative...