Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2015
So as I did for Japan, I wanted to throw out a few random thoughts and opinions from our time in China. As we are walking around, shopping, researching, or whatever else is going on… I try to take little notes of the times when one or both of us says “that’s cool” or “that’s weird.” So here goes for China.<- …
So in my prior post on China, I shared a few pics, videos, and thoughts on the random rows of apartment/condo towers that we saw, often in the middle of nowhere, on our train ride through Northern China, concluding that post with the following thought: “China is like a shark. It must keep swimming or it will die. Except ‘swimming’ is really …
So. Let’s get a post out there on China’s economy. Which is really really big. China passed Japan not so long ago to take the silver for 2nd largest economy in the world. <- – – Click this little footnote. The Chinese economy is huge, coming in at about 10.4 trillion dollars for 2014. So obviously this post isn’t going to fully …
In the prior three parts to this series, we explained that Japan has a demographic problem (part 1), a debt problem (part 2), and that the two are likely to collide in the coming years (part 3) when Japan eventually is faced with higher interest rates.<- – – Click this little footnote. So to close out the series we’ll take a …
So, I contracted Dengue Fever. If this nasty little tropical mosquito-borne illness is new to you… here’s a handy little official medical diagram of what having Dengue feels like. Anyway. We’re in Bali and I’ve spent the last six days alternating between sweating, freezing, cramping, whining, sleeping, and other gross symptoms. To make matters worse, I found out today in …
