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  • Rio 2016: Using ETFs to Play Brazil's Olympic Win [View article]
    no.


    On Oct 03 05:05 PM mals wrote:

    > You have listed five ETFs. Is there one fund that captures all of
    > the components of the five ETFs?
    Oct 04 09:51 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Emerging Markets: The New Spenders of the 21st Century [View article]
    the same was said of the usa by old europe not many years in the past.


    On Dec 07 04:30 PM AlexR wrote:

    > I have lived in one of the BRIC countries. I am really skeptic that
    > any of these countries can one day pull ahead of the U.S. in terms
    > of economic dominance, whether you measure it by GDP, productivity,
    > or standard of living. The transformation would require several centuries.
    > Keep in mind that the entire Chinese population has just been scammed
    > by the Americans, at the tune of $2,000 per person... the Chinese
    > have slaved away for years to produce goods for the U.S., in exchange
    > for nothing but paper (dollars and treasuries) now held by the Chinese
    > government. It seems to me the U.S. got the better end of that bargain.
    > I have no idea how this will unfold, but at some point the Chinese
    > will realize what a raw deal they got. A similar deal was in effect
    > with Russia and Brazil for commodities, but they have already squandered
    > most of the money made in that bubble. India is held back by internal
    > discrimination (too much diversity and a social cast system) that
    > stifles social mobility and entrepreneurship, and hence productivity.
    > The amount of education, cultural adaptation, and infrastructure
    > build-out that would be required to turn these "emerging" economies
    > into rich nations would be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
    Dec 08 20:27 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
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