George Jetson would have been two weeks old today.

Sorry but Europe is just better.
1. Transportation
2. Environment
3. Coffee

Brilliant piece on China's Cyberspace Admin by Jamie Horsley: digichina.stanford.edu/work/behind-th…

reddit.com/r/China/commen…

$HKD up 20,000% since IPO less than a month ago and has 10% float. I wonder whether it could possibly be manipulated. I would be so shocked.

Implications: Go long decoupling. Whatever happens, disengagement by and of China is set to ratchet higher now, for lots of reasons I have explained incl here project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-… 4/6

They sure are showing those kids making sandcastles.

This sort of thinking is just what we need (and I'm not saying that b/c he's my brother. At least not only.) nationalinterest.org/feature/ukrain…

Wow, $MF

On another topic, I only just discovered Martti Talvela. What a voice, what a loss that he died so young. youtube.com/watch?v=Z61vHb…

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…

Here's a prediction: China's '5 funds' that provide benefits to formal sector employees will be chipped away and eventually discarded.

How come everyone but Chinese regulators knew about this? '13.4 billion yuan ($2 billion) of deposits were used as security for third parties to obtain bank loans' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What I wonder is, if a developer has already collected and spent money for a property, why would the company then take a new loan in order to complete it? cnn.com/2022/07/22/eco…

Shocker. Not. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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