Monthly Archives: January 2007

What is the right price for outsourcing?

I’ve been musing on this lately … it’s part of my job and it’s interesting.    What is the “right” price for outsourcing?  That is, what is the price where it’s clearly in a company’s best interest to outsource a business function and it’s in a supplier’s best interest to provide the outsourcing?
In principle, it’s […]

M2 and Income Disparity

Referring to the previous post, there is another issue buried under the money supply here in China. Who has the money is really important, to state something that is “intuitively obvious to even a casual observer.”
In China, the rural poor clearly don’t have the money, so even a cursory per capita money supply analysis by group will show […]

Reserves, Totals, and Critical Thinking

China Public Radio (sort of like National Public Radio in the US, but less leftward leaning) announced this morning that the Chinese government will tighten bank deposit reserve requirements by half a percentage point.  They also announced that the action will take twenty billion dollars out of circulation — which seemed to mean, in the […]