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For last several months, China said to have > 200 mn empty apartments. W key element of living space per capita, > Europe or Japan, seems fair to conclude it does NOT have housing shortage:

Vinod Khosla, billionaire VC & Sun Microsystems co-founder, was already among world’s richest when he invested in SKS Microfinance, a lender to poor women in India. Roaring success of SKS’s IPO has enriched him by ~ $117 mn

The tussle between sales and marketing is not new - but new technologies make it all the more challenging.

The African Decade is upon us, with Ghana expected to grow at an amazing +20 per cent rate in 2011. Of the 12 fastest growing countries in 2011. they are all from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and all but two are small.

President of Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City agrees w analysis expressed in Feature on lessons of Fed Document Dump for US econ. Thomas M Hoenig argues more must be done to address increasing threat.

Key aspect of involuntary, Congressionally-mandated document dump by Fed is depth & duration of direct involvement in commercial paper market, where finance sector meets "real economy"

Until now Euro Zone has had single option vs surging budget deficits: an EU bail-out. Now it wants to create 2nd: rescheduling sovereign debt of an ailing member state, in Wall Street parlance, "taking a haircut".

While we're delighted at multi-national media experiment in government transparency, we still wonder: What has world public learned it didn't know before?

Key under-appreciated factor in NE Asian drama is fear in China & S Korea that, if pushed too far, N Korea will collapse as independent state, unleashing refugee flood they, not Japan or US, wd have to deal w as immediate, multi-dimensional problem.

Two years after Black September 2008, Wall Street’s moneyed elite are breathing easier again. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America & JPMorgan Chase have set aside $89.54 billion this year to pay employees.