| 8 Ways China is Exporting Inflation |
2008-02-05 21:19:13 |
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China is experiencing inflation.
Seeings as China is the world's factory, why shouldn't the middle kingdom export this impact on other country economies as well?
Last year China's consumer price index (CPI) was over 6%. The CPI was in the 4% range in 2006. America's CPI was 4.1% last year compared to 2.5% in 2006.
China is exporting inflation.
I. America can expect price increases of as much as 10% on some goods
II. When China's prices are low, other markets are forced to keep their prices low as well - think Viet Nam, Malaysia and so on. When China's prices are up, those factories can raise their prices as well.
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| Red Lipstick, Passionate Kiss, Costs $2 million |
2007-10-11 11:49:02 |
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A red lipstick wearing art lover lost control and kissed a $2 million Cy Twombly painting in Avignon, France.
The picture’s owner wants $2 million in damages and $70K for restoration. Continue reading… |
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| Children Take Pole Dancing Lessons Down Under |
2007-10-11 11:45:35 |
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Australians are letting their kids take pole dancing lessons.
They are training for what, we wonder?
Instructors maintain the classes are for building strength and flexibility.
Kids say its fun, different, great exercise. Continue reading…
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| Mom Drowns 2-month old Son, asks for Divorce |
2007-10-11 11:31:58 |
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A 35-year old Japanese woman, ‘tired of taking care of’ her 2-month old son (she sure wore out fast)
1. drowned the little boy,
2. went to the other room and told her husband she wanted a divorce,
3. then left the apartment. Continue reading… |
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| Hospital Gives Man Vodka Drip-feed |
2007-10-11 11:29:20 |
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| When an Australian hospital ran out of the medical alcohol (do they have that sort of thing?) that it needed doctors fed an Italian tourist with a vodka drip-feed. Continue reading… |
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| Virgin Sues Virgin Mobile |
2007-10-11 11:14:46 |
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Virgin Mobile lifted a photo from Yahoo’s photo-sharing website, Flickr and did not credit the photographer.
Virgin Mobile Australia used the picture of a 16-year old Texan girl flashing the peace sign at a church carwash in their campaign “Are You With Us or What?” Continue reading… |
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| 6-year old drives car to Applebee’s, crashes |
2007-10-11 10:55:58 |
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The cops said, “he was so cute, so matter-of-fact about it.”
Yeah, and he didn’t kill anybody either.
A 6-year old boy wanted to go to Applebee’s but nobody would take him.
So, he got the keys and tried to drive himself there. Continue reading… |
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| Why a Rich Guy Shouldn't Marry a Young Beautiful Girl |
2007-10-11 10:51:50 |
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An anonymous 25-year old woman - 'spectactularly beautiful' and 'superficial' advertised for a husband on New York's Craiglist who made at least $500K a year.
"...a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't think I'm overreaching at all," wrote the woman. Continue reading… |
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| Southwest Airlines Tells Masterbaiter to Get Off |
2007-10-09 12:26:36 |
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My friends gave me a T-shirt when I was in high school that said Masterbatter.
I wore it most of the day until the counselor told me to turn it inside out.
I was naive and didn’t understand why.
I am not so naive now…nor is Southwest Airlines.
They told a passenger to turn his shirt inside out because on the back
it said MASTERBAITER. Continue reading… |
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| Beer Cans Flying at 115mph, the Finger and a Taser |
2007-10-09 12:22:39 |
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A 26-year old redneck in FL was having a ball….for a while.
He zipped along at speeds of up to 115 mph in his truck in heaving rainfall.
He threw beer cans out the window in the process. Continue reading… |
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| Orangutan Shows Preference for Tattooed Blondes |
2007-10-09 12:19:43 |
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| Sibu the orangutan showed his Dutch keepers that his sexual interests are in blondes with tattoos. (I don’t know about you but I do NOT want to know HOW he showed the preference.) Continue reading… |
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| 30-year old woman and an 8-year old boy |
2007-10-09 12:17:26 |
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What could a 30-year old woman possibly want to do with an 8-year old boy?
I guess we, I, don’t want to know. Continue reading…
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| Policeman Arrested for Looking Up Schoolgirl’s Skirt |
2007-10-09 12:13:49 |
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It was a policeman!!!
A sergeant in Japan’s Metropolitan Police Department is facing charges of using his mobile phone camera to take pictures up a little school girl’s skirt. Continue reading… |
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| Naked Free Lunches |
2007-10-09 12:09:55 |
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A restaurant in Maine offered a free sandwich called the ‘Skinny Dip’ - sliced prime rib in a baguette roll - to anyone willing to jump naked from the Black Frog Restaurant’s dock into the lake.
Two-three people a week took them up on the offer. Continue reading… |
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| Teen Daughter Lured to Truck Stop to Meet Pervert |
2007-10-09 12:06:35 |
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A 46-year old man told a 15-year old girl that he had hooked up with on MySpace that he was 24.
The pervert was apprehended at “The Flying J Truck Stop” after the police received a tip.
The old fart tried to ‘dump’ the girl and threatened to kill her if she tried to draw attention to herself. Continue reading… |
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