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Outsourcing and My New iPad 3
UPS delivered my new, state-of-the-art iPad 3 last Friday, but before they did, I checked the UPS website for the shipping progress of my precious cargo--making sure the package hadn't been signed for by an unscrupulous neighbor who had no intention of giving it to me. My iPad had been quite the...
40M viewers/week - Chinese show interviewing death row inmates - Investment opportunities?
So one of the most popular current shows in China is called "Interviews before Execution." They get people who are about to be brought before the firing line and discuss their crimes. As described by the DailyMail: The glamorous Ms Ding conducts face-to-face interviews with the prisoners, who have...
Absolute Joke of a Resume
I just had this resume edited by someone "qualified". The font was changed from Times new Roman to Calibri - I think that it is somewhat unprofessional. So any font suggestions are appreciated. FYI, I'm interested in banking, corp. finance, and especially ER . Anyway, let me know what you think of...
Canadian Prime Minister Shills Alberta Oil Sands in China - Official visit to China
Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in the midst of an official visit to China. His mission? To convince Beijing’s mandarins to buy Canada’s Alberta oil sands hydrocarbon production, now that Republican Congressional overreach has effectively sidelined the Keystone XL...
Everyone's favorite topic...
The recent state dinner hosted by the White House was nothing short of lavish. Lobster, 400 dollar wine, etc. I understand the need to appear strong and stable in the eyes of the world but come on, really? 400 bucks a bottle. I'm sure the President and the White House get some sort of discount, to...
China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development
Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, on his way home U.S. President Franklin...
resume advice- prior experience in China
guys, see below for the link. any comment is appreciated. http://www.razume.com/documents/23864 compared to most of the posters here, I'm probaly older but most of my exp out of school were in China so please bear me with some of the phrases I used. Currently looking at opportunity in US and Canada...
Asia?
I was in Heathrow Terminal 5 the other day, and I came upon the realization that everyone shopping the premium brands was a non-English speaking Asian person. I encountered the same thing taking a walk on Saville row (literally just to look at the stores, I don't have that kind of buying power). My...
why is no one talking about china?
i'm curious to hear what you guys think about China right now if europe, one of their main export destinations, is clearly going in at least a minor recession, us economic growth is consistently sluggish, and their property bubble is in the early stages of bursting, i fail to see how you can...
Book recommendation : The Growth Map, Jim O'neill
There are three pressing issues the world confronts right now : High trade imbalances among countries, crippling indebtedness in the west, and low growth. If anybody on this site was struggling to find a solution to these, it is worth reading this thought-provoking book.
The Decade's Movers and Shakers
Who and what were they? With 2010 fast coming to a close, we say goodbye to another decade and enter one anew. 2001-2010 was not without its drama; we saw the horrors of terrorism with 9-11, we had the wars in the Middle East, there were epidemics, massive oil spills, nut job dictators, and possibly...
teach for china
anybody hear anything about this program?
Pick your BRIC
The BRICs, four nations of undoubtably great importance in our world today. Some have equated them to the Old world's four horsemen, insolent upstarts vying to replace the old guard. To most however, we see nothing but a vast, wet, and beautiful ocean of opportunity. Since the term was coined nine...
Mainland China Opportunities post IB stint in USA
Hello, Can anyone provide some insight on working in finance in Asia (particularly Mainland China)? I grew up in the US and am working currently an IBD analyst in the US at a bulge bracket firm. I do have the language capability to work in China. I would be interested in either working for a western...
In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Energy Production China to Embrace Fracking
China is leaving no shale deposit unturned in its effort to develop indigenous energy resources. On 24 November China’s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China’s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 million...
The trade wars have just gone nuclear
With the entire world still in the throngs of financial despair; trade wars and currency conflicts have erupted, causing serious tension between otherwise friendly nations. Tariffs and barriers were threatened to be placed, WTO sanctions were insinuated, name calling and aggressive tactics have...
China: To short or not to short?
China; the birthplace of Kung Fu, fireworks, hot asian women, and fake Louis Vuittons. It's meteoric rise in power is unparalleled throughout history. Though largely hated in the old world, some say that it’s the future, the new frontier, the place where dreams come true and fortunes are to be...
The Road to Ruin
A very well written piece by Roger Altman (most of you know him as CEO of Evercore) in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs. Some shocking excerpts from his piece include: - Economic threats have been used to influence foreign policy in the past. In 1956, during the Suez crisis, the US threatened not...
WSO now on renren.com
Thanks to one of our very helpful campus reps (Jinghao Zhou at UNC) - WSO now has a Renren page - 92 followers in 4 days, (approx. 6.87439545 × 10^-8 % of the whole chinese population :) with posts to be translated into Chinese in the near future. WSO 现在有一个 renren.com 页!(
China wants a taste of that U.S. IPO action
from 10 Chinese Internet Companies Have Made Confidential Filings for US IPO , Says VC [quote] Although there is currently a freeze in US IPOs by Chinese companies, there is apparently a new round lying in wait. There are at least 10 Chinese Internet companies who have made confidential filings with...
How Do I Get To China???
Background: I am a senior about to graduate in 2012 from a non target. I have a 3.4 GPA and two internships in China, one with a boutique and the other with a small consulting firm. I could not work there after graduation, as they are very client focused and I would have to be extremely fluent in...
Chinese Debtors Offer Fingers to Loan Sharks
November 7, 2011: Loan sharks have been a problem in the Western World for centuries. From traditional Vegas sharks to payday lenders, the poor have been subject to atrocities by creditors for years, despite government intervention. The situation today is no better for China's small entrepreneurs....
The World Currency War continues
A while back I wrote about the beginning of a World Currency War . For those who have a done a bit of travel and discussion with some of the BRIC (predominantly Western educated) intellectual elite, you know that many of these people feel it is their duty to "restore a balance to the force". For you...
Occupy Main Street, Restructure America
November 6, 2011: It has been almost 4 years since the United States and the entire Western World has been mired in this recessionary state. What has happened should not be a surprise to anyone. After scrambling for an ever higher quality of life, sending labor-intensive industries overseas, and...
Natural Gas Discovery in South China Seas Raising Tensions Between China and Vietnam
First, the good news… U.S. oil company ExxonMobil is reporting a “potentially significant” gas discovery off the coast of Vietnam, stating in a press release, "We can confirm ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Vietnam Limited drilled its second exploration well offshore Danang in August...
China is evil, literally
Not sure if I should put this here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post… China is evil. Personally I consider myself of Taiwanese descent. Comment.
~~NSFW~~ 2 YEAR OLD RAN OVER NO ONE HELPS
this video is sick, it shows a little girl getting ran over 2 times and no one helping every one just looking; wonder what your opinion on the issue was it's graphic, but no blood and gore. Not gunna lied made me go ***** a few times. AGAIN NSFWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm curious to know the...
Peter Thiel and Me: Technology, China, and Immigration
One of my favorite things in the world (besides Evil, potato salad, and the new Kindle, of course) is when people agree with me. In a recent appearance on Bloomberg , Peter Thiel does some quality agreeing with me. If you don't know Petey boy, you should: he co-founded PayPal (was the company's...
The China Situation
In a world where everyone wants to be an exporter, he who has the weakest currency is king. And nobody knows this more than China. I came across this article from seeking alpha about the worsening trade situation between China and the states. [quote]“The Chinese government, in an effort to...
Excellent Budget Rant
I'll just leave this here... NSFW
China’s Rare Earths Monopoly – Peril or Opportunity?
The prosperity of China’s “authoritarian capitalism” is increasingly rewriting the ground-rules worldwide on the capitalist principles that have dominated the West’s economy for nearly two centuries. Nowhere is this shadow war more between the two systems more pronounced than in the global...
MBB Salary in Mainland China for 1st year analyst/associate
Okay so I just looked into glassdoor's information on 1st year business analyst/associate (entry level) at MBB in Mainland China and the overall number fluctuates around 30k-35k (USD, annually). The number is so low I even gasped when I realized that includes bonus (WTF?). All three firms have...
China is Interested in Biofuels - Why Not the West?
China, arguably the world’s most influential and dynamic economy, is beginning to eye renewable as a partial solution to its voracious and growing energy needs. If Beijing determines that biofuels represent the future, expect to see the current modest western investment field to change...
China and Rare Earths - Monopoly for Now
First, the bad news - China's constrained rare earth supplies will be an "irreversible trend" and prices will remain at high levels, according to Zhang Zhong, general manager of Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co. Zhang should know, as his concern is China’s leading rare earths...
Resource Rich Mongolia Attracting Outside Interests
Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile its foreign policy between the USSR’s hammer and Nazi Germany’s hard place. Who...
The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energy Policy in the USA
Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the United States has positioned itself to be behind history on what can be a very promising industry for a stumbling economy. After the...
Oh China...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Entire-Apple-stores… BEIJING (AP) -- It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words...
Your opinions
Given an option, would you rather start IBD in an emerging market (Shanghai/Mumbai) or more developed markets like NYC /London considering the deal-flow, deal exposure, pay in absolute terms(PPP) and lower cost of living? What would you prefer if an emerging market (eg. Shanghai, Mumbai etc) was...
Iran Opens Oil Bourse - Harbinger of Trouble for New York and London?
The last three years of global recession have dealt a major blow to American capitalist ideas trumpeted throughout the world on the value of “free markets.” Wall St has been revealed as a form of casino economy, with the bankster insiders gambling with other people’s, and eventually, the...
Tajikistan, a Frail Nation-State Amidst the New “Great Game”
The past two decades since the 1991 collapse of Communism have seen the Russian Federation and the U.S. involved in an updated version of the 19th century’s “Great Game’ for mastery in Eurasia over the debris field of the former USSR. Not surprisingly, Moscow regards its former colonial...
Chinese Reserves Can't Protect China
I recently sat in during a presentation of a head economist of a BB and he was confident that China will be, in the next 5 or so years, the next dominant economic superpower. When questioned on that view he made light of the fact that China can basically not fail with their US$2-3 trillion or so in...
FX Reserves- China´ SAFE assets
I found a nice graphic, showing the current assets of SAFE, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China, which manages the chinese FX Reserves China´s FX Reserves exceed $3 trillion SAFE was famous for the miss-management in crisis 2007, it was said that the company had more than $100...
Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowhere is this more noticeable than Beijing’s policies in the South China Sea, where Chinese assertions of...
So I did manage to find an IB internship in China, but question is how are they viewed?
I posted here a couple of weeks ago asking about opportunities in Beijing. It happened that a boutique became interested in me, invited me to interview, and I got the internship. So I'd really like to thank those who replied to my thread because it kept me motivated and WSO has served as a very...
David and Goliath: Vietnam Confronts China Over South China Sea Energy Riches
An increasingly fractious maritime confrontation is developing in the South China Sea, with enormous implications for international companies interested in developing East Asia’s offshore hydrocarbon resources. Far from the radars of city of London and Wall Street investors, the clash has seen...
Reverse Merger List
Can anyone direct me to a database of reverse mergers done in the last 3-5 years? Where could I find such list? Thanks!
Yet another big company hacked - Are we capable of stopping this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13711528 So Citi are the latest victims. This is likely to be a criminal/state attack, for what I know citi have done nothing to piss off the hactivists. It does beg the question though, hackers taking data off one of the largest banks in the world? If they can...
U.S. - Venezuelan Relations - Just “Frozen” or Beyond Repair?
According to the U.S. Energy Administration, two months ago the United States total crude oil imports averaged 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), with the top five exporting countries being Canada (2,666 tbpd), Mexico (1,319 tbpd), Saudi Arabia (1,107 tbpd), Venezuela (930 tbpd) and Nigeria (918...
China Building Ghost Cities
A friend passed this story along to me, pretty interesting if you have the time to watch (about 15 minutes) or you can skim the transcript. Basically the Chinese government is so obsessed with maintaining its high gdp growth that they've built a few cities which end up remaining empty for the most...
Salary of Lazard China
They are expanding their office there this year, and is hiring right now. Could any one who has got the offer shed some lights on the salary for graduate of an analyst role? I've read some thread on this forum discussing that. I know it couldn't compare with in U.S. but still want to have an idea....
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