You can not but be invested in the Indian, not Chinese capital markets in the next 20 years. It is slow, it is antiquated but it is well established. China's market have no futures, no short-trading as yet and the same shares are traded in HK at a ...

HKEX sells real-time quotes for 100/m. The poster is looking for past tick by tick data.

It is a moot point. — Bob, Even if you are right (but you are not) about the lack of parking space, the PRC has overtaken the USA as the world's largest market for motor-vehicles. I realize that you will come back with the per capita thing but ...

No, you don't get it. They will build the dam things - underground, over head whatever. Didn't the USA go from a non automotive to a automotive culture too at some point in our history? What's the problem? Are you from the midwest with a bug up your ...

A lot of highways in the US are 3 lanes in each direction, even in New York. Tokyo does NOT have a 35m population. Educate yourself. USA has almost 3 times the population of Japan. Educate yourself again on the per capita cars in the USA and Japan, ...

Presumably you do selective reading. There are 100s of subway projects all over the PRC and High-Speed Rail between the big cities. They're going to be more like Europe and Japan that the USA. And because it is a huge country, they are building ...

OK, is Japan not in Asia? Don't they have a huge # of cars? What about HK? Isn't that in Asia? HK has more miles of roads per capita than California and more than any country/state in the world. Japan has high-speed rail. That is being considered ...

Ofcourse they are commies. The likeable ones. What's the matter with you? Lived in China for whatever # of years and not know the leadership is communist? Nice!

They park on the highways because they do not want to pay the parking fees. Once they get hit wih huge traffic fines, that will change. But anyway, you seem to think that no one has a clue. Do you think all those millions of commies (who so far seem ...

What is not a theory but a fact? I am telling you the difference between freealy tradeable and pegged & freely-tradeable. You seem not to comprehend either. Did you get past high-school? Things in (imports) - raw materials + all your 101 economics - ...

Currencies have more of a tendency to revert to the mean. And secondly, currencies don't shoot up/down more than a 1% in a day (like stocks do) which means you have to use leverage. And leverage is a very dangerous thing. But good luck!

Yes, right. But that shows ~9,000 tons and is valued at $300bn, nowhere near enough to pay off the debt.

Wow, is that so? Where's the link?

Everything is on hindsight. Gold up x% since 20## - what do you think that is? Hindsight. House prices down y% since 200# - what do you think that is? Hindsight. Just to clarify. Gold might be the future. I am not saying it isn't. All I am saying is ...

"The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index produced a 22-fold return with dividends reinvested, Treasuries rose 11-fold and cash in the average U.S. checking account rose at least 92 percent." There is no debt in gold/commodities! I guess you are ...

President Richard Nixon to eliminate the fixed gold price in........ I am not trying to say it, I have said what I am going to repeat again. * On a 50 year time-scale, gold looks awful. Not many know/care. * The recent 2 year gold bull-market is not ...

Couple of points to note. 1. The gold standard was undone in the 70s by Nixon and not after WWII. 2. Gold has risen against all currencies, not just the greenback. 3. Every country has debt. Many have a whole lot more than the USA as a percentage of ...

Ofcourse, that is the point. Everyone and his, know that last year was a great year for gold, and that is not news. We have to look at a 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 year frame. And on the 30 year frame, it sucks. Not for Mr. Buffet this. Just imagine ...

The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index produced a 22-fold return with dividends reinvested, Treasuries rose 11-fold and cash in the average U.S. checking account rose at least 92 percent. On an inflation-adjusted basis, gold investors are still 79 ...