This past week's release of China's second quarter GDP growth number - at 7.6% - was viewed as an ominous sign of the future direction of the global economy by some pundits, while others see the Chinese government's stimulus measures as a hopeful sign that its economic growth will be...

China bashing has become as much a part of the modern American political tradition as criticizing foreign producers of oil, yet it seems few have actually stopped to think about whether it is justified. The American electorate has become accustomed to the predictable torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric from politicians of...

Many western economic pundits continue to believe that China will experience a hard landing in the near term, even though its economic history over the past 20 years has demonstrated that in spite of global and national economic turmoil, China has always landed on its feet. Although the future direction...

For decades the U.S. has had the luxury of printing dollars while the rest of the world produced the things dollars can buy. The world has long prospered on this debt-fueled credit binge, but all good things come to an end, and we are witnessing the gradual deterioration of the...