"China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something..."

“China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country’s whole way of doing business, the economic system that has driven three decades of incredible growth, has reached its limits. You could say that the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall, and the only question now is just how bad the crash will be.”



- Hitting China’s Wall - NYTimes.com



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Mother's day dinner at Rajasthan restaurant

"Humans can be divided into managers up and managers down. Usually, the managers down are nice, but..."

“Humans can be divided into managers up and managers down. Usually, the managers down are nice, but the managers up are successful. Turds float.”



- Bullying opens a can of norms



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"Then there is Downer’s acute understanding of geopolitics. He knew so much about what was not..."

“Then there is Downer’s acute understanding of geopolitics. He knew so much about what was not happening - Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction - that he needed to invade in the interests of stability and security. But he knew so little about what was happening - the dirty deal with Saddam by which the Australian Wheat Board creamed off $300 million under the oil-for-food program - that he had to do, well, he had to do nothing. Remarkable, wasn’t it?”



- Alexander leaves us on a downer



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This clipping is from the March 31 issue of The Sydney Morning...

This clipping is from the March 31 issue of The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition.

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