Postcard From No 528

No lack of money

  • Published 06 Aug 2009

The most popular question on the Shanghai stock market is 'What to buy?'

The theme for this year was already clear as long ago as February when comedian Xiao Shenyang stole the show at the Spring Festival Gala with a skit called "No lack of money"(Bu Cha Qian). Such Gala predictions have been wrong so often in the past that they seemed to be becoming a curse. But Xiao was right on the money. Indeed, the problem now isn't so much a lack of cash as too much of the stuff.

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