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We are on vacation.
And so is the rest of France. The little church was crowed yesterday, mostly with Parisians and their children. It was also the 50th wedding anniversary for a friend…a retired army colonel and his wife. But the occasion was marked by more sadness than joy. Only three weeks ago, one of their sons was killed in a traffic accident. We felt so sorry for him; we didn’t know what to say. We wished he could worry about the stock market…or the monetary system…or the war in South Ossetia – but it was all no more than the…
12Aug2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | ContinuedThree Ways to Profit from the Overlooked China-France Alliance
France and China are – let’s face it – natural buddies.
France has traditionally looked for a political counterweight to the United States, and China is beginning to provide one. China wants to keep the European Union from aligning against it, and France is the EU’s guiding spirit – even if it’s no longer its largest economy.
France has strengths in some of the high-tech and heavy industry sectors that China needs. And the European nation also boasts the world’s most-sophisticated array of the luxury goods that newly wealthy China consumers now crave.
On the other hand, China has cheap consumer goods…
12Aug2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedWhy French Investments Are Worth Another Look
French investments might have seemed like a bad idea for the first nine months of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s term. After his election in May 2007, Sarkozy looked like a huge disappointment – unless you REALLY enjoy tabloid stories. He divorced his wife, married the spectacularly beautiful ex-model Carla Bruni, and went on an enviable honeymoon in Egypt – but appeared to do nothing useful about France’s economic problems.
But now there’s some good news for French investments. Like all good Frenchmen, Sarkozy may have preferred first to concentrate on his private life when elected President de la Republique. But with…
30Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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