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is a green bubble developing?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2000, 18th April, 2010
Entrepreneur magazine asks the question.  With so much money being poured into “green” energy ventures which so far have yielded sparse results, are we developing a green bubble, where the unrealistic bidding-up has unrealistically inflated the value of tech stocks?  Such a bubble, if it exists, would be setting us up for a drop in [...]
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is china’s spectacular recent growth a mirage?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1617, 15th April, 2010
No, that’s not quite right.  We know China’s been undergoing some massive growth in recent years–real growth fueled by economic liberalization and technological progress.  So a more accurate way to ask this would be:  are the numbers we have seen for Chinese economic growth lately deceptive because they are part of an inflationary boom cycle [...]
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