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Tony Sagami: If you ask me, all our politicians on a federal level are overcompensated. Every darn one of them! Not just the elected politicians themselves, but also their armies of support staff on the payroll. Read more…
Tony Sagami: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, may have brought the U.S. into war against the Japanese, but Japan had been waging war against much of Asia for a decade before Read more…
Tony Sagami: Chinese stocks started off with a bang this year, rallying by 10% in January and February, but struggling since Premier Wen Jiabao lowered China’s 2012 GDP growth forecast from 8% to 7.5% on March 5. Read more…
Tony Sagami: In a new Virgin Mobile commercial, a young Richard Branson tells his friends, “In the future, we’ll be able to talk to each other with our thumbs.” Read more…
Tony Sagami: The White House recently rolled out the red carpet for the next president of China, Xi (pronounced “shee”) Jinping, in what many called a “critical” visit for the United States to build relations with the man expected to assume China’s presidency in March 2013. Read more…
Tony Sagami: Like clockwork every week, I can expect to open an e-mail or two that questions my investment enthusiasm for China. Those e-mail critiques are generally along the lines of: Read more…
Tony Sagami: In last week’s video issue, we talked about the World Bank’s discouraging view of Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) and the United States, and its optimistic view about China (NYSEArca:FXI) and its Read more…
Tony Sagami: I have a big smile on my face right now. Why? I just finished a trip to Singapore, my favorite city in all of Asia. Even though I was born in Japan, still have family there and have a strong emotional connection to my Japanese roots … Singapore is my favorite Asian destination. Read more…
Tony Sagami: How did your portfolio do in 2011? The answer greatly depends on where you invested your money and how able you were to withstand some wild volatility. Read more…
Tony Sagami: Happy 7 BILLIONTH birthday! I may be getting gray and old, but I’m not that old! Those birthday wishes go to everyone on the planet, actually, as the United Nations Population Fund estimated that the global population hit 7 billion on Halloween night. Read more…
Tony Sagami: Before it was just the Obama administration, but now, just about everyone who is running in the 2012 Presidential race is jumping on the anti-China (NYSE:FXP) bandwagon. Read more…
Tony Sagami: It sure seems like the only thing that politicians in Washington, D.C. know how to do is spend money … President Obama’s new jobs plan will cost almost another half-billion dollars. And Ben Bernanke didn’t want to feel left out. Read more…
Tony Sagami: Let’s not sugarcoat the state of our economy: Unemployment is stubbornly high, real estate prices are in the dumps, our nation is up to its eyeballs in debt, and we’re teetering on the cusp of recession. Read more…
Tony Sagami: Vice-President Joe Biden and the basketball team of Georgetown University both went to China last week, and neither one of them received a warm welcome. Read more…
Tony Sagami: We are thick in the middle of quarterly earnings season, and even though all we typically read and hear about are U.S. companies, the long arm of China is having huge impacts on many of them. Read more…
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