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Just how important is China becoming? I think some still ignore the fact that China will soon be the world’s top economy. I still found it very interesting that Forbes put Hu Jintao at the top of the most “Powerful Persons” in the world, above Barack Obama. The world is changing very fast. Have you started learning Mandarin yet?:) You can see their entire rankings here.
You can also see some of the more interesting readings from the past week here:
–Dividend investing in 2011 @ TheDividendGuyBlog
–Setting appropriate stop loss order @ InvestIntheMarkets
–Top Dividend stocks in Canada @ The Financial Blogger
–Dividends vs Share repurchases @ DividendMonk
–Google finance portfolio charting @ Curious Cat Investing
–Simple investing is better investing @ Oblivious Investor
–Why you should pay back your debts before saving for retirement @ DoNotWait
–The Fed will allow strong banks to hike dividends @ Reuters
–Preferred shares vs Bonds @ MillionDollarJourney
–Facebook charts the times where most breakups occur @ MatthiasMikkelsen
–What is a balanced portfolio? @ Balance Junkie
And this impressive chart from Calculated Risk!
Nice roundup. Thanks for including my article! 🙂
Thanks for the link. My brother got a head start, beginning to learn Chinese in High school and then continuing to do so at Georgetown University and spending a year in Taiwan, then working in Hong Kong for a few years.
@John Hunter – Wow, impressive, what did he end up doing?
Among other things he worked for Boom.com (in Hong Kong), Accenture and now his own startup: Hexawise (software testing).