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  Tour group vacations

  March 9, 2010 8:37 AM
  For our vacation to Hainan last week, our local travel agent booked us on a tour group package. Following a tour group has some advantages and disadvantages. The good: cheap transportation and lodging with no need to make decisions on... 0

• Sales Psychology

  March 8, 2010 6:03 AM
  March 8 is International Women's Day in China and many other countries around the world. Walking around local stores for women's clothing, signs showing "3.8 discount" representing the date 3/8 were everywhere. In China (and Chinatowns across the world), discounts... 0

• Yuan to appreciate?

  March 7, 2010 5:30 PM
  After a few days rest from my vacation, I started reading up on the news again and my eyes immediately went to these articles: China faces new pressure to let currency rise Why China should let the yuan rise At... 0

• ESOP fees

  February 26, 2010 9:48 AM
  A few weeks ago, I wrote about Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) as a possible exit strategy for a privately held company. My company is in the initial stages of researching this option. To that end, I some researching and... 0

• Vacation Plans

  February 25, 2010 4:40 AM
  In my last post about the plethora of languages in China, I ended with a mention of practicing Mandarin for my upcoming trip to Hainan. In addition, I want to travel to the following places during this coming year: Beijing... 0

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  Language skills for the 21st century

  February 24, 2010 10:07 AM
  Ask people for a generic skill to have to further job prospects and foreign language proficiency often comes up pretty high. And with more than a billion Chinese speakers and an economy growing in leaps-and-bounds, Chinese is right at the... 0

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  Expectations versus reality

  February 23, 2010 9:04 AM
  In my last entry, I wrote about the expected returns for my portfolio. How has it played out during my limited investing career?Annualized ReturnsAfter pulling my numbers together, I have: Nominal Real CPI Return Return --------------------------------------- 1996 2.93% 22.70% 19.77%... 0

• Expected real return

  February 18, 2010 4:01 PM
  In this thread at the Get Rich Slowly forum, a question was asked about everybody's expected rate of real (inflation-adjusted) return. My brain first started working on the answer like so:6% stocks (5% overall, I overweight in risker equity allocations)2%... 0

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  Work Overdrive Trivia

  February 14, 2010 9:26 PM
  The last 4 days, I have been working in overdrive. We have a "product" demo this coming Wednesday where knocking their socks off is important. We've previously demo'd this product to other customers but in those cases, we had the... 0

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

  February 11, 2010 3:48 AM
  As a small company with continual day-to-day involvement from the founders, exit strategies are hard to come by. Finding a buyer willing to pay a large amount of money upfront for an operation that might stop being profitable after management... 0