Economy
America’s Economic Highway: From Market Bumps to Fiscal Cliffs: How Did We Get Here?
Trump’s economic team has hinted at a correction bear—grim, but not baseless. The trillion-dollar question is: can the U.S. steer clear from a fiscal cliff?
Economy
China
Is China entering Japanification? Some observations suggest a No
"Japanification" means a long slump like Japan's Lost Decade. Is China next? Reasons suggest otherwise.
Youtube Videos
A Russia-China-led Stablecoin?
Can this synthetic global digital currency be dollar's real threat?
Zines
Solow Residual vs. Xi's Residual; What Tech the Pentagon is Buying; China Cancer Drug Breakthrough; Browser as an OS; 1st Chinese Published in Nature
Noteworthy in tech and capital
Zines
China’s New Cyber Purge; Starlink’s China Counterpart; Future of Dual-use Tech; Index Controversy; Virus Prophecies…
Notes for generalists
Zines
Dilemma in China’s Quantum Communication, TikTok Led Splinternet?, Canton Fair, 2025, Analog, Chasing Non-performing, First NFL in China
Notes for tech generalists
Zines
Digital Sovereign Currency; Mirror the Whole Internet; Kissinger; Grey Rhino/s; Phrase I Challenge; Chaos Butterfly and More...
Notes for tech generalists
Zines
Hong Kong, STAR Market, U.S.-China Controversy, MSCI, Guizhou-Cloud, How to Sound like China Expert
A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow
Zines
Offshore Investment, Apollo Lite, Water, Rare Earth, BRI, Liu Cixin, a Wanderlust in China
A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow
Zines
Libra; AI true advantage; Circadian Medicine; China Tech; Coherent Ising Machine; SwiftUI; Generalist;
[Social Media] Will WeChat be the next? Facebook brings on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal as backers of its cryptocurrency, Libra. Crypto watchers got different feelings : * Bullish Billionaire crypto investorMichael Novogratz commented: “Visa serves some 50mm merchants. I’m sure MC(master card) is pretty close to that. Meditate on that.
Venture Capital IPO Stock Market
Economists Never Considered Human Creativity?
You may be surprised to discover that in the past 10 years, overall venture capital return is zero, according to a conversation between Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) and Marc Andreessen (a16z) (a must see video here from StartUp Grind Conference in 2017 Redwood City). It may be even more
Policy
Glass-Steagall for Tech?
On March 4, Financial Times reported that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommittee, suggested separating social media platforms from selling information and data, or so-called “Glass-Steagall for tech”. (The Glass Steagall Act was enacted in 1933 in the wake of 1929 stock market crash to separate investment