Walter Hutchens’ Blog

• "Hum" may not be the word; several x last wk I jumped as one of these silently glid by Electric Boost for Bicyclists http://nyti.ms/aFphg0 #
• Upgraded RAM in my Chinese netbook (anybody ever heard of LEThink? Me neither, till I bought one) to 2 GB. Noticeably faster. #
• Stanely Fish on Citizens United case – What Is the First Amendment For? – http://nyti.ms/9ODjtr (I'm NOT a consequentialist) #
• Just finished Ian Johnson's Wild Grass, abt 3 "ordinary" Chinese who fight govt on excessive taxes, housing, FLG. Predictably, all crushed. #
• Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng MIA, Liu Xiaobo got 11-years, PRC tells world to f'off. Andrew Jacobs in NY Times http://nyti.ms/bO2×3D #
• Novel legal theory: Restitution for child pornography victims, with joint & several liability for those in possession http://nyti.ms/dwgN0v #
• Wish Apple allowed this directly: Bluetooth keyboard for iPhone (if iPhone jailbroken): http://bit.ly/8XYMXE (via @engadget) #
• Played w/ one of these tiny PCs in HK recently. Keyboard just for thumbs but great screen Fujitsu UH900 http://bit.ly/bsRhji via @engadget #
• College grads earn a million dollars more over a career? Maybe not. WSJ.com – What's a Degree Really Worth? http://on.wsj.com/9OOgg7 #
• Round up of info on Google settlement talks re scanning U libraries http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Google-Book-Search-Settlement/20939/ #
• Reading Kunstler's dire, compelling book The Long Emergency predicting global upheval as we move past peak oil. #
• Weather cancelled my flight to DC, but I made it to Philly . . . snow not falling YET (minutes to spare!). Hope trains run to DC tomorrow. #
• Thankful made it to Philly for Wharton China Business Forum http://bit.ly/aek2wG esp. its capital markets panel: http://bit.ly/9G49oT #

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• 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!) #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• Looking back on the 90's. On Point radio show: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s #
• On way to B'ham for Christmas. Senator Shelby on this flight. So far have managed not to try to talk w/ him abt fin crisis or public option. #
• Tort law reform in China means adding, not taking away, causes of action. "我国立法首次明确精神损害赔偿" http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQxMzMzNDY4.html #
• Valiant passengers: Passengers’ Quick Action Halted Attack – http://nyti.ms/6GBInw #
• No China Advent: Market Leninism continues. Sad. Nasty. "Leading China Dissident Gets 11-Year Term for Subversion" – http://nyti.ms/7RWqU9 #

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• Hedge fund with 3/50% instead of 2/20% fee structure, w/ competing $ managers. NYT on SAC Capital – http://bit.ly/8AxMa7 #
• Pittsburgh Sets Vote on Adding Tax on Tuition http://bit.ly/6fu8ft (via @nytimes) #
• Going to Law School? Proceed With Caution … Debate flaring over JD's value http://bit.ly/7IWdJe (via @lawjobs) #
• Traders, not bankers, running Goldman Sachs now – http://bit.ly/8R7n4c (NYTimes) #
• Celebrity sponsorship deals have termination clauses for a reason: Accenture, as if Tiger Woods Were Never There – http://nyti.ms/8hrnnB #
• Chinese language students — New version of iPhone app from ChinesePod language learning co. looks very good @chinesepod #
• NYT writer: Cable Freedom Is a Click Away http://nyti.ms/6MDCMA (if only municipal b'band made the cable co net connection irrelevant, too) #
• Speech on rule of law's progress & prospect in China given @ HKBU by prominent scholar & reform advocate Li Buyun http://bit.ly/5QQI7k #

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