Walter Hutchens’ Blog

January 2010 Archive

January 31st, 2010

Back from 20-day China trip to Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Guangzhou. Saw stock mkts, factories, casinos, horse track, cathedral, tomb from 122 BC #
Paulson says Russians asked Chinese to dump Fannie/Freddie bonds to force US bailout of those GSEs: http://bit.ly/9swHPg #
Booked ticket for Wharton China conference; tired of travelling but this promises to be a worthwhile event. On panel about capital markets. #
Agree Flash should be on iPhone/iPad: http://bit.ly/caKmNt Want a Nokia N900 b/c has Flash. Not avail yet in HK or PRC #
Back from China, missing food. NYT on Beef Bowl Economics http://nyti.ms/aMYnlZ See also One Noodle at a Time in Tokyo http://nyti.ms/asCNX8 #
Naming & other marketing aspects of iPad WSJ.com – Apple Tablet Draws Jeers, Legal Rumblings Over iPad Name http://on.wsj.com/cFVUZu #
NY Times: China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy – http://nyti.ms/csogMY (after breathing south China air for 2 weeks, Godspeed!) #

January 17th, 2010

NY Times retrospective on worst merger ever: How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong – http://nyti.ms/8OhKVo #
Orville Schell on stuff that works/doesn't in US, China (amen on airlines, airports) : http://bit.ly/5KbCZF via @msittig #
Law, grad school cautions: http://bit.ly/7ktUPz and http://bit.ly/5ZmxKI #
Via @USATODAY Microblogging spreads in China, even without Twitter http://usat.me?37241446 #
Thankful students had great day in HK–Star Ferry across harbor, visit to Hong Kong stock exchange, tram up to Peak, then to ICAC. #
HOW to "Do no [or the least possible] evil" in PRC: NYT: Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China http://nyti.ms/4yZWfm #
The extreme tensions of market Leninism . . . Wash Post version of Google may pull out of China over cyber attacks – http://bit.ly/5Jj68q #
Google's statement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html #
What happens if Google now shows leadership on not caving into PRC censorship, other than it loses China market to Baidu? Trend for others? #
MacKinnon on Google doing right thing WSJ.com Opinion Asia: Google Gets On the Right Side of History http://on.wsj.com/8gpYBv Follow @rmack #
Website for Fin Crisis Inquiry Commission: http://www.fcic.gov/ Good introduction: http://www.newdeal20.org/?p=7425 #
Great week in Hong Kong! Visited stock market, anit-corruption org ICAC, US Consulate reps. In Macau met MGM Grand CFO. 26 students love HK #

January 3rd, 2010

NYTimes on Beijing "nail" shops: Chinese Businesses Resist Eviction by Developers – http://nyti.ms/5tkCrT #
Former China Microsoft and Google honcho and PRC tech celeb Lee Kaifu touts upcoming Apple tablet: http://t.sina.com.cn/kaifulee #
NY Times: For Stocks in the Developed World, It Was a Decade of Zeros – http://nyti.ms/5jLclU #
NY Times on $700 billion man "Neel Kashkari’s Quiet Path to Pimco" http://nyti.ms/8AumZ5 #